This Week's Acquisitions

(Some books I ordered months ago decided to all show up at once.)

• Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (Picador, 2004).  Reprint of Robinson's 1980 novel, featuring two orphan girls raised by a series of relatives.  (Lift Bridge)
• Jose Saramago, Death with Interruptions, trans. Margaret Jull Costa (Houghton Mifflin, 2008).  Death? What death? (QPB)
• Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (DC Comics, 1995).  Admittedly, graphic novels aren't usually my cuppa, but all the recent discussion intrigued me... (QPB)
• Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (Riverhead, 2009).  Scary goings-on at a British manor, right after the end of WWII. (BOMC)
• Mary Gordon, The Other Side (Penguin, 1990).  Irish immigrants to the USA around the turn of the century, and what happens to their family.  (eBay)
• Stephen Howe, Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture (OUP, 2002).  Exacting study of contemporary Irish historical writing. (Amazon [secondhand])
• Garrett Stewart, Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction (U of Chicago, 2009).  New theoretical approach to narrative and close reading.  (Amazon)