This Week's Acquisitions
- Ma Jian, Beijing Coma, trans. Flora Drew (Picador, 2008). A comatose man shot at Tiananmen Square slowly returns to consciousness. (Review copy)
- Ann Harries, No Place for a Lady (Bloomsbury, 2007). Historical novel set during the Boer War. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Anne Enright, Yesterday's Weather (Grove, 2009). Short stories. (Lift Bridge)
- Linda Peterson, Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market (Princeton, 2009). Studies the different ways in which women had--and imagined--careers as writers in the nineteenth century. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)