Books from Grove/Atlantic
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Eat the Rich
By P. J. O'RourkeThe nation's leading political satirist traverses the world, exploring the power of money, ruminating on the world's varieties of capitalism and socialism, and offering his own hilarious primer on economics. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ...
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Long Time Coming: A Black Athlete's Coming-of-age in America
By Christian K. Messenger, Chet WalkerA star player for the Chicago Bulls during the sixties and seventies looks back on his life and career, criticizing the treatment of Black athletes by the sports establishment
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
By Tim FlanneryThe Weather Makers is the most ambitious book yet written by a world-renowned scientist on the greatest crisis facing the twenty-first century. Book jacket.
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Evergreen Review Reader: 1962-1967
By Barney RossetIncludes the most representative works published by the magazine during the first five years of its existence
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Evergreen Review Reader: 1957-1961
By Barney RossetIncludes the most representative works published by the magazine during the first five years of its existence
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A Taste of Honey: A Play
By Shelagh DelaneyPresents the text of a play centering on the private life of an adolescent working-class girl faced with complex emotional problems
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The Costa Rica Reader
By Marc Edelman, Joanne KenenContains primary source material.
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Memo from David O. Selznick
By David O. SelznickA compilation of the renowned producer's memos, letters, and telegrams provides insight into his personality as well as his dominant role in fashioning the motion-picture industry
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Where the Buffalo Roam
By Anne MatthewsIn Where the Buffalo Roam, Anne Matthews follows the Poppers - he a land-use expert and she a geographer at Rutgers University - as they present their blueprint to return millions of devastated acres to their natural glory.
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Twelve Bar Blues
By Patrick NeateLick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet player, sets out to conquer the steaming jazz scene of early twentieth-century New Orleans, in a lively novel that won the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award.
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The Wretched of the Earth
By Frantz FanonInvestigates the role of violence in social change, as reflected in its use by colonized peoples to achieve the liberation of the Third World
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Ill Seen Ill Said
By Samuel Beckett"This late work from Samuel Beckett is the haunting picture of an old woman alone in a cabin, who watches the evening and the morning star and ventures out chiefly to visit a grave.
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Krapp's Last Tape: And Other Dramatic Pieces
By Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape: And Other Dramatic Pieces
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How to Beat the System: The Student's Guide to Good Grades
By Kathy Crafts, Brenda HautherOffers college students tips on how to select courses, handle reading assignments, write papers, and pass exams
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The Thing Happens: Ten Years of Writing about the Movies
By Terrence RaffertyDiscusses the work of Scorsese, De Palma, Forsyth, Truffaut, Huston, Kubrick, and Kaufman, and reviews over fifty movies
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The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay
By Lewis H. LaphamArgues that the current distaste for dissent, the widespread support for Perot, and the public obsession with celebrity reveal a desire for autocracy
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By Gillian McCain, Legs McNeilA chronicle of the punk movement through interviews with such people as Iggy Pop, Joey Ramone, and Debbie Harry.
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Grinning with the Gipper: The Wit, Wisdom, and Wisecracks of Ronald Reagan
By P. J. O'Rourke, Peter Schweizer, James S. DentonGrinning with the Gipper: The Wit, Wisdom, and Wisecracks of Ronald Reagan
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CRISIS: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS
By William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, Robert C. KolodnyA world-famous research team reveals the results of their nationwide study providing startling new evidence for the rampant spread of the AIDS virus among heterosexual American adults, a threat so far seriously minimized by official sources ...
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Wicked Women: Stories
By Fay WeldonWeldon's world is peopled with therapists who blithely destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their detachment, and clever women navigating the perils and pitfalls of domesticity.