books by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

books by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

Intense, heartwrenching, difficult -- important.
Incredible memoir... Easy to read, difficult to believe. Sometimes I wanted to stop because it was so painful, but I am really glad I pushed through those hard time because it is an amazing story and most important a true one. I feel it is vital to be aware of such ...

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Thomas L. Friedman’s No. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world, and globalization, in a new way. With his latest book, Friedman brings a fresh and provocative outlook to another pressing issue: the interlinked crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy--both of which ...

Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel

Rivka Galchen

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Great Debut... don't read the press reviews
Again, like someone else said, this is not Pynchonian in the slightest. This is a love story, albiet, an intellectual one as the writer certainly has quite an abundance of knowledge in the field that she writes about. It's short, and not many sentences require tons ...

Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found

Marie Brenner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

A Classic Memoir
Written with heart, wit, and honesty, Apples and Oranges explores the complexities, absurdities, and hidden bonds of a difficult sibling relationship. Brenner dives into dark waters and comes up glistening with a special truth. It made me laugh and cry.

The Story of a Marriage: A Novel

Andrew Sean Greer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Raed this if you appreciate good writing
I am an avid reader and this is the best book I've read in a long time. The writing is just beautiful, absolutely beautiful. I found myself re reading paragraphs because the imagery was stunning. I don't know how people write like that and maintain such an original ...

Cost: A Novel

Roxana Robinson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Wrenching look at addiction
Robinson, a wonderful writer, has given us a wrenching look at the complexities of addicton.......the horrors for the addict and for everyone who is drawn into his world. She spares the reader none of the grim details as the family tries desperately to find answers and ...

Lush Life: A Novel

Richard Price

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Price's Best ?
I picked up Lush Life prepared to like it, because I don't know of a better writer today with an eye for detail and an ear for detail. Those two senses make for a powerful combination when it comes to writing, as long as you have the discipline. And, for all of its ...

Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)

Jostein Gaarder

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

Fun, Fascinating, possibly even Educational (but who cares)
I forget where I found this book - not, I think, on Amazon. I took it on vacation, thinking a novel about philosophy should at least help me sleep at night. Not only did I race through it eagerly, but my better half, who has not been seen reading a book for pleasure ...

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

Fascinating Culture, Fascinating Book
As the title implies, this book offers an alternative perspective of epilepsy, or seizures, as seen through the lens of the Hmong people. It also provides a fresh view of Western so-called civilization itself, and most particularly Western medicine. I doubt there's ...

Breath: A Novel

Tim Winton

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Alone in purgatory
This strikes me as one of Winton's more complex, challenging books. Each character is alone and on trial in the face of elemental realities--the sea, the weather, the sky, sexuality, the vastness of the world. Is there any better metaphor for that separateness, your ...

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

True Adventure
The music of the twentieth century remains an almost undiscovered but volatile treasure. Too often the only classical music people are aware of are works composed in the long bourgeois century - the 1800's - and earlier. But it is only in the twentieth century when ...

Gomorrah

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

What happens in Naples happens everywhere...
I was stationed in Naples from '91-'94. I roamed all over as military police. I saw corners of Naples that many Americans living there never even dream of visiting. My knowledge was based in hear-say though and I have now many years later begun to study the city and ...

Exiles: A Novel

Ron Hansen

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

A moving, heartbreaking, and deeply spiritual novel
Ron Hansen, the Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. Professor of the Arts and Humanities in the English Department of Santa Clara University, has astutely blended two narratives: the story of a reluctant poet and the shipwreck of the S.S. Deutschland on Dec. 6-7, 1875. While ...

Max's Words

Kate Banks

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2006

Max's Words
I find this to be a delightful story of a little boy that is looking for something to 'collect' just like his older siblings. They have their coin and stamp collections which they refuse to share, so it's up to the youngster to go out and find something of his own. ...

Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making

David Rothkopf

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

We Need Superheroes
Rothkopf focuses this book on the so-called Superclass members of the world today (a number he pins at six thousand, making each literally one in a million) and the reality they are creating for the rest of us. These Superclass members span the world of business and ...