books by Grove Press, Black Cat

books by Grove Press, Black Cat

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Paulo Lins

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2006

My Favorite Movie
City of God is among the best movies I've ever seen in my life. Even if you're not a huge fan of foreign films, this movie will still grip you. The narrator of the movie is Buscapé (Rocket), a boy who grows up in the City of God, Rio de Janiero's most notorious favela. ...

The Yoga Teacher
Alexandra Gray

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2008

Dissatisfied with her job as a pharmaceutical rep and struggling with the decline of her long-term relationship, Grace, a well-heeled Londoner, uses yoga class to unwind, reflect, and momentarily transcend her earthly dilemmas. While pitching her company?s latest antidepressant to the disarming Dr. James, she is inspired by his plan to study ...

Flight: A Novel

Sherman Alexie

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007

Come and check out this FANTASTIC EVENT for FLIGHT
Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you know there is a GREAT event coming up almost a week away in New York City. The American Place Theatre's Festival: Literature to Life is performing a theatrical adaptation of FLIGHT by Sherman Alexie on September 21st, 2008. Don't ...

Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

Claire Keegan

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2008

adult Irish Stories
No Leprechauns here. Ms Keegan writes marvelous short stories that are beautifully written and deal with serious themes

The Gathering (Man Booker Prize)

Anne Enright

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007

Graceful & Imaginative
I'm not surprised that this book won the Booker Prize. Enright has a superior command of the language. She creates fluid yet surprising prose, moving between real and imagined events, past and present with astounding grace and skill. This book is a surreal meditation ...

Fault Lines

Nancy Huston

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2008

I Loved This Book
I couldn't put this book down and I went through withdrawl after I finished it. The clever narration device never got tiresome or clumsy. The subject matter, though so intense, was handled profoundly, and with care in simple language. The characters were well developed ...

Serve the People!: A Novel

Yan Lianke

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2008

serve the people serves you nothng but pleasure
Serve the People is a great book. It is well written like a lot of Chinese literature. The words are smart, sparse and full of emotion. The story is one that is both political and a love story at the same time. Apparently, according to the book jacket, this book was ...

Man Gone Down: A Novel

Michael Thomas

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2006

read it twice, at least
This first novel beats anything written the same year. I couldn't put it down until I had read it twice. It's one of the most observant pieces in years. You look through the eyes of the narrator and see a world you can't see any other way. Go to a coffee shop, or go to ...

Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

Matt Taibbi

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007

The doctor is in.
As a longtime fan of Hunter S. Thompson's political reporting and social commentary I was first exposed to Matt Taibbi when i learned that he had inherited the very same job that the good Dr. HST held at the Foriegn Affairs Desk at Rolling Stone magazine. Pretty bold ...

100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed (Black Cat Series)

Melissa P.

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2004

An erotic journey into self discovery and exploration
Originally written and published under a pseudonym, 100 Strokes of the Brush..., was well received in Italy, and later throughout Europe as a revelation, an account of a young Italian teenage girl's first forays into sexual encounters, beginning with a boy she liked, ...

I Love You More Than You Know: Essays

Jonathan Ames

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2005

More stories from Ames' wild life.
Ames' third essay collection brings with it his normal hilarity (no one has misadventures quite as awkwardly funny as Ames), but also, too, pathos. An older and somewhat-wiser Ames seems full of regret -- over who he is, how he's lived, the decisions he's made, the ...

Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll

James Greer

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2005

No better coverage is available.
Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard has been involved in the rock scene for over twenty years, has been compared to Paul McCartney to Rossini, and has staged live rock performances which stand out from the crowd. Written with exclusive cooperation from Pollard, GUIDED BY ...

The Impostor: A Novel
Damon Galgut

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2009

Damon Galgut is one of South Africa?s most exciting new literary voices. In The Impostor, his first novel since The Good Doctor, Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid South Africa, a landscape being reshaped by new waves of money and power. Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and ...

Salty: A Novel

Mark Haskell Smith

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007

Great summer read
Could not put book down. Aging rock star implants himself in your heart. Evil kidnapper evolves into sensitive caring man thanks to powers of love. Sexy, spicy and constantly drawing you in. Read it on plane trip to Hawaii, and read it again on trip home to JFK, ...

White Ghost Girls

Alice Greenway

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2006

A chick book and so much more
Two American sisters Frankie 14 and Kate 13 live with their distant self-absorbed mother in Hong Kong in 1967. Their father is a photographer away covering the war in Vietnam. The girls are often left in the care of their Cantonese amah who is ill-equipped to deal with ...