This Week's Acquisitions

• Benjamin Black, Vengeance (Holt, 2012).  Latest in Black's (i.e., John Banville's) series of neo-noirs featuring his pathologist protagonist, Quirke; this time, Quirke tries to figure out why the head of a successful company committed suicide in front of his business partner's son.  (Amazon)
• Sebastian Barry, On Canaan's Side (Penguin, 2012).  An elderly Irishwoman reflects on her life, both in Ireland and the USA.  (Lift Bridge)
• Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister, trans. Christina E. Kramer (Penguin, 2012).  Novel about Adolfina Freud, sent to a concentration camp after her brother managed to emigrate.  Coincidentally, there's a similar novel out about Nabokov's brother.  (Lift Bridge)
• Jan-Melissa Schramm, Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge, 2006).  Important study of how the multiple meanings of "testimony" played out across a variety of discourses.  (Amazon)
• Edward Short, Newman and His Contemporaries (Continuum, 2011).  Biographical-historical study of Newman's intellectual, religious, and artistic circles.  (Amazon [secondhand])

Comments

[Mmy]

The link for Freud's Sister takes the reader to the On Canaan's Side Amazon page.

[Miriam]

Fixed.