Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
A Really Big Lunch
The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
An essay collection from “the Henry Miller of food writing” and New York Times–bestselling author of The Raw and the Cooked (The Wall Street Journal).
Jim Harrison was beloved for his untamed prose and larger-than-life appetite. Collecting many of his most entertaining and inspired food...
The Caddie Was a Reindeer
And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A joy ride through the wild world of sports from the best sportswriter in the country.” —St. Paul Pioneer Press
Steve Rushin, a four-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, has been hailed as one of the best sportswriters in America. In The Caddie Was a Reindeer, he circumnavigates...
Driving Like Crazy
Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending: Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed to Be—With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The #1 New York Times–bestselling humorist’s tribute to car travel is “a ride worth taking, even for readers who don’t know an oil pan from a frying pan” (The Washington Times).
From a veteran of both Car and Driver and National Lampoon magazines, this hilarious book chronicles the...
How Asia Works
Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
“A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed.” —Bill Gates, “Top 5 Books of the Year”
An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said “should...
Everything Is Wonderful
Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
“Pages of dreamlike prose explore Estonia’s terrible Nazi-Soviet past, the trauma of dictatorship, and how memory processes that trauma.” —The Financial Times
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
Just like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly...
Vino Business
The Cloudy World of French Wine
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
“This sharp critique of French winemakers, and Bordeaux’s Saint Emilion region in particular, caused quite a stir when it was published in France in 2014” (Publishers Weekly).
Already provoking debate and garnering significant attention across France and within the wine world, Vino Business is...
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
The Golden Age of Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
From the rise of Bill Haley to the death of Jimi Hendrix, this account of music in the 1950s and 1960s is “the definitive history of rock ‘n’ roll” (Rolling Stone).
This is British music journalist Nik Cohn’s classic and cogent history of an unruly era—filled with outrageous tales...
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
The History of the Disc Jockey
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
“A riveting look at record spinning from its beginnings to the present day . . . A grander and more fascinating story than one would think.” —Time Out London
This is the first comprehensive history of the disc jockey, a cult classic now updated with five new chapters and over a hundred...
Havana World Series
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “dark, rich, and satisfying” novel of mobsters, baseball, and 1950s Cuba (Entertainment Weekly).
It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series—the New York Yankees are playing the Milwaukee Braves, and the infamous Meyer Lansky’s gambling empire is raking in millions...
Auto da Fay
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A New York Times Notable Book: The “wise and haunting” memoir from one of England’s most witty and beloved writers is “from first to last a wonder” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post).
From life as a poor unwed mother in London to becoming one of England’s bestselling authors, Fay...
by Philip McFarland
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
The author of Hawthorne in Concord “brings [Stowe] to life in all her glory, in a book at once so dramatic and so subtle that it rivals the best fiction” (Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America**).**
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin forced an ambivalent North...
by Kenzaburo Oe
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red...
by Lisa Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
**Outsanding . . . Surprising and superb . . . A literary adventure story . . . Gripping, detailed, and wholly convincing . . . A supremely human book . . . combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller.”-*National Post*
"In...
by Sayed Kashua
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
**In this “**slyly subversive, semi-autobiographical” novel “of Arab Israeli life,” a Palestinian man struggles against the strict confines of identity (Publishers Weekly).
In Sayed Kashua’s debut novel, a nameless anti-hero contends with the legacy of a grandfather who died fighting...