New York Adult Entertainment: Paperback Row
MRS. WOOLF AND THE SERVANTS: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury,
by Alison Light (Bloomsbury, $20.) The men and women who “enabled the creation of much high-modernist art,” as our reviewer, Claire Messud, said, are the subject of this absorbing book. Light examines Woolf’s relationships to her own servants as well as the changing mores of the period.
by Louis de Bernières (Vintage International, $15.)
A Serbian woman living illegally in London meets a melancholy (married) salesman who becomes obsessed with her. “To keep him coming back,” she says, she tells him stories, especially of her father: a Chetnik, then a Communist partisan, then a secret policeman under Tito — and, by her account, her first lover. How much is true? Is she a prostitute? Do the two consummate their affair? Questions linger in this meditation on the power of stories.