Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: china, experience, american, stilwell
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2001-10-07
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0802138527
ISBN-13: 9780802138521

Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China’s Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. Her story is an account of both American relations with China and the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In th

Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: cancer, tropic
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1994-01-06
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802131786
ISBN-13: 9780802131782

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for 27 years after its publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American cesorship standards permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s.

Author: P. J. O’Rourke
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: rourke, sofa, ceo
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-07-23
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 080213940X
ISBN-13: 9780802139405

New York Times best-selling author P. J. O’Rourke lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of the Gulf War, traded quips with communist rebels in the jungles of the Philippines, and went undercover at the Dome of the Rock Mosque as P.J. of Arabia. Now, in his most challenging adventure, he journeys to the heart of that truly harrowing place -- his living room. The CEO of the Sofa follows America’s preeminent political humorist through a year on the domestic front as he covers stories (and visits watering holes) close to home. He waxes cynical over the election of Hillary Clinton. He w

Author: Andrew D. Blechman
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: reviled, bird, revered, world, fascinating, saga, pigeons
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-10-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802143288
ISBN-13: 9780802143280

Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated since the dawn of man, they’ve been used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives. Charles Darwin relied heavily on pigeons to help formulate and support his theory of evolution. Yet today they are reviled as “rats with wings.” Author Andrew D. Blechman traveled across the United States and Europe to meet with pigeon fanciers and pigeon haters in a quest to find out how we came

Author: Norman Manea
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: essays, artist, dictator, clowns
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1994-01-28
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802133754
ISBN-13: 9780802133755

Survivor of the Nazi camps and Ceausescu’s Romania, winner of the National Book Award, recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Norman Manea, an extraordinary man of letters, "gives us a taste of something beyond the scope of even our twentieth-century imagination. . . . Manea is too profound a witness to place his gift for observation in the service of another sensualist account. . . . What matters for him is the phenomenon of an entire nation’s life under this simultaneously grotesque and terrifying rule." -- The New Republic

Author: Will Self
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: imitation, dorian
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0802117295
ISBN-13: 9780802117298

The New York Times Book Review has praised Will Self as a "high-powered satirical weapon" and an "alpha male in the British literary hierarchy." Now he confirms his place among our most important writers by offering a stunning reimagination of the most shocking novel of its time. Summer, 1981. It is an age when appearances matter more and more. Only the shallowest people won’t judge by them. Henry Wotton, gay, drug-addicted, and husband of Batface, the irrefutably aristocratic daughter of the Duke of This or That, is at the center of a clique dedicated to dissolution. His friend Baz Hall

Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: englishman
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-03-03
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802144101
ISBN-13: 9780802144102

Originally published in 1996,The Englishman’s Boyis the first in a Guy Vanderhaeghe trilogy that includes the nationally best-selling novelThe Last Crossing,with the third book due to be published next year. By far his most successful book in his native Canada,The Englishman’s Boyexpertly depicts an American West where greed and deception act side by side with honor and strength. In 1920s Hollywood, elusive movie studio owner Damon Ira Chance is obsessed with making pictures rooted in American history and experience, with the poetry of fact. So when he discovers that one of the most popula