Grove Press imprint: 1036 books
by Bruce Jay Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An “irresistible” collection of short fiction by an author who “has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen” (The New York Times Book Review).
Hailed by Newsweek as “a bona fide literary event,” The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman brings together dozens...
What Are You Like?
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From a Man Booker Prize–winning author, a “hauntingly eloquent” novel of love, loss, family, and what a woman finds while in search of herself (The Seattle Times).
Born in Dublin in 1965, Maria Delahunty was raised by her grieving father after her mother died during childbirth. Two decades...
Guitar
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From humble folk instrument to American icon, the story of the guitar is told in this “exceptionally well-written” memoir by the NPR commentator (Guitar Player).
In this blend of personal memoir and cultural history, National Public Radio commentator Tim Brookes narrates the long and winding...
Meet Me in the In-Between
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
A fashion designer turned writer details her bohemian life in this illustrated memoir—“Think Eat, Pray, Love . . . only cooler” (Marie Claire).
Bella Pollen wants to feel like she belongs, but she never learned how. The middle child of transatlantic parents, she constantly moved back and...
Long, Last, Happy
New and Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
A definitive, career-spanning, best-of tribute to a master of the modern American short story, featuring work from his final unpublished collection.
A fitting summation of one of America’s greatest short story masters, this towering tribute features stories from Airships, Captain Maximus, Bats...
by Will Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
"A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."-James Joyce, UlyssesRadical and uncompromising, Umbrella is a tour de force from one of England’s most acclaimed contemporary writers, and Self’s most ambitious novel to date. Moving between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital in 1971,...
The Best a Man Can Get
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
A hilarious and touching debut novel in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition.
Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectly within reach) and playing trivia games with his underachieving...
American Gangster
And Other Tales of New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians,...
by Bruce Jay Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The New York Times–bestselling author finds the pulse of the aging American male in two ingeniously funny novels. “I just laughed myself sick” (Neil Simon).
Two classic works of comic self-help fiction by “one of the funniest writers in America” available together for the first time in...
The Best Game Ever
Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
The NFL championship game that changed the history of football: a New York Times bestseller by the author of Black Hawk Down.
Yankee Stadium, December 28, 1958. What was about to go down on this Sunday evening in front of sixty-four thousand fans and forty-five million home viewers—the largest...
by Barry Hannah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into contemporary American life by “the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction” (Interview).
The thirteen masterful tales in this collection by the award-winning author of Airships and Bats Out of Hell explore lost moments...
"If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!"
The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
“A probing biography of the enfant terrible of 1960s and 1970s film-making . . . exhaustive and endlessly intriguing.” —Booklist
Written by the film critic and historian David Weddle, this fascinating account does critical justice to an important body of cinema as it spins the tale of...
Labyrinth
The True Story of City of Lies, the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. and the Implication of the Los Angeles Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records....
A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.
How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?
In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein,...