Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
by Carol Drinkwater
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2001
After all, they are newlyweds of limited means, and Carol is still adjusting to her role as stepmother to Michel’s two daughters. But the splendor of the region becomes a force they are unable to resist. Michel presents their life savings to the real estate broker as a down payment for the farm,...
by Philipp Blom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
From amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is a captivating tour of collectors and their treasures from...
The First Detective
The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy, and Private Eye
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
He was the Inspector Morse, the Sherlock Holmes, the James Bond of his day. A notorious criminal in his youth, he became a police officer and employed a gang of ex-convicts as his detectives. He developed innovative criminal indexing techniques and experimented with fingerprinting, until his cavalier...
Choking on Marlon Brando
A Film Critic's Memoir About Love and the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In this witty and bittersweet memoir, the film critic shares her misadventures as a lover of film stars who seeks movie romance in the real world.
Antonia Quirke was ten years old when she first saw Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. It was the first film she ever saw, and her reaction...
Breakfast at Sotheby's
An A-Z of the Art Word
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Two questions are key to experiencing a work of art in a museum or exhibition: 1.) Do I like it? 2.) Who's it by? You need quite a few more questions if you're in an auction room or dealer's gallery, however. You’ll find yourself asking, How much is it worth? How much will it be worth in five or...
Queer City
Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
PRAISE FOR QUEER CITY
“Always entertaining . . . much to be recommended.”—The Spectator
“A nimble, uproarious pocket history of sex in his beloved metropolis.”—Independent
“Ackroyd has an encyclopedic knowledge of London, and a poet’s instinct for its strange, mesmerizing drives and...
From Exile to Washington
A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
“The former Treasury Secretary has shared his story in a memoir that is both an engrossing personal narrative and a thoughtful reflection on leadership” (Henry Kissinger, author of On China).
In a life that has spanned nearly nine decades and has taken him around the world and back, W....
The Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn’t love you back (Turgenev’s A Month in the...
The Commandant
An Account by the First Commanding Officer of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnal factory where the industrialization of death was practiced--where probably 3 million people were literally worked to death, shot or quickly gassed--is still almost beyond belief today. Jurg Amann has taken Hoess' text...
Roots Schmoots
Journeys Among Jews
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson (Peeping Tom) to put off a trip to Lithuania planned as a search for his Jewish roots, he accepted an offer from the BBC to visit Jewish communities around the globe instead. This informed and witty account of his experiences deals...
We Were The Future
A Memoir of the Kibbutz
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective settlements have been written about extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting,...
On the Many Deaths of Amanda Palmer
(And the Many Crimes of Tobias James)
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
“Strange and clever . . . Some inspired thinking about real issues like the slippery nature of the Internet and relationships between artists and their fans” (Flagpole).
Centered around the hypothetical death of a real-life musician and performance artist—Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls...
The Boxer's Heart
A Woman Fighting
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“Brave and ballsy . . . the internal chaos that prompts Sekules’ rage and desire to retaliate is a more original, fascinating place to visit than any gym.” —Salon.com
The Boxer’s Heart is a brilliantly candid memoir of the world of women’s boxing, now updated and with a new afterword....
Play About the Baby
Trade Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
The Play About the Baby is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque in its high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing bonds between parents and children. A fresh young couple—Boy...