Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
Logic
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
After critics raved over Olympia Vernon's first novel, Eden, Vernon returns to the Deep South for the story of Logic, a young girl struggling to free herself from the unspeakable condition she refers to as "the butterflies floating inside" her.As a child Logic Harris survived a fall from a tree-an accident...
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and Other Plays
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party, The Lady in Questio
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Charles Busch is renowned for weaving popular culture, wicked camp humor, and biting social satire into an unusual and uproarious theatrical signature that has earned him the Outer Critics' John Gassner Award for Playwrighting and a Drama Desk Award for Best Play nomination. Of his latest play, The New...
Blindness of the Heart
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Winner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe’s freshest young voices-a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family. In the devastating opening scene, a woman named Helene stands with her seven-year-old son...
Sons and Other Flammable Objects
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Compared by Danzy Senna to "the young Philip Roth" for her "lashing, dark humor tinged with deep melancholy," Porochista Khakpour is one of her generation's most outrageously gifted new talents. Sons and Other Flammable Objects is at once a comedy and a tragedy, a family history, and a modern coming-of-age...
Night in the Afternoon
And Other Erotica
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A short libertine novel . . . It is masterful, from beginning to end, intelligent, and in many passages, very beautiful” (La Quinzaine).
Night in the Afternoon is a breathless, lyrical, and starkly erotic novella of a young woman caught between two lovers. Though she shares a wonderfully...
Correspondents
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
The...
by Melissa P.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
It opens innocently enough: the diary starts off with a tone of self-absorbed adolescent wistfulness. The fourteen-year-old Melissa starts taking notes about her feelings during a very hot summer. Her bedroom is plastered with Klimt posters and photos of Marlene Dietrich. She is a loner, fond of classical...
Where We Have Hope
A Memoir of Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A journalist’s harrowing account of life in Zimbabwe—and the human rights atrocities perpetuated—under President Robert Mugabe’s despotic rule.
Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew Meldrum arrived in a Zimbabwe flush with new independence,...
Beethoven
The Man Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
“An ideal ‘first book’ on Beethoven” from one of the world’s most eminent classical music aficionados (Booklist).
Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates...
Still Writing
The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.”From the best-selling author of Devotion and Slow Motion comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, meditation on the artistic...
Agent Storm
My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The true story of a jihadi convert seeking redemption in “a rollicking read and a rare insider’s account of Western spying in the age of al Qaeda” (The New York Times Book Review).
Standing over six feet tall with flaming red hair, Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. But after a troubled...
Four Princes
Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
“Bad behavior makes for entertaining history” in this bold history of Europe, the Middle East, and the men who ruled them in the early sixteenth century (Kirkus Reviews).
John Julius Norwich—“the very model of a popular historian”—is acclaimed for his distinctive ability to weave...
Henry VIII
And the Men Who Made Him
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry’s life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted with...
Straight to Hell
True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The hilarious New York Times bestseller “sharply observes the lives of globe-trotting, overindulging investment bankers” (Entertainment Weekly).
“Some chick asked me what I would do with 10 million bucks. I told her I’d wonder where the rest of my money went.” —@GSElevator
For three...