This Week's Acquisitions
- A. L. O. E., The Blacksmith of Boniface Lane (Thomas Nelson, 1895). Reprint of Charlotte Maria Tucker's novel about the Lollards. (Biblio)
- Philip Hensher, The Mulberry Empire (Knopf, 2002). In 1839, British troops try to unseat an emir in Afghanistan. Bad idea. (Amazon [secondhand])
- William H. Gass, The Tunnel (Dalkey Archive, 2007). Reprint of Gass' novel about a historian of the Holocaust who encounters serious writer's block while working on an introduction. Hence the tunnel... (eBay)
- Christine Schutt, Florida (TriQuarterly, 2004). Neglected adolescent reads stories. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now (NYRB, 2008). New anthology of du Maurier's Gothic and horror tales, including "The Birds." (57th Street Books)
- Shusaku Endo, Silence, trans. William Johnston (Taplinger, 1980). Sixteenth-century Jesuits try to deal with persecution in Japan. (57th Street Books)
- Francine Prose, Goldengrove (Harper, 2008). Young woman deals with her family and the memory of a dead sister. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones, trans. Charlotte Mandell (Harper, 2009). An elderly Nazi reminisces...for well over 900 pages. (BOMC)
- Hugh Kearney, The British Isles: A History of Four Nations, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2006). New edition of an extremely influential history. (eBay)