Richard Grant, Author . Grove $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1763-2
In this cogent but uneven meditation on American wanderers past and present, British writer Grant, who has written for GQ
and Esquire
, parallels his own travels through the American Southwest with those of earlier explorers, conquerors, cowboys,...
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Richard Grant, Author Free Press $15 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3440-2
As he travels through Mexico’s Sierra Madre, one of the largest drug-producing regions in the world, British journalist Grant (American Nomads
) encounters a rugged landscape where the mythical old Mexico meets the challenges of the new. The...
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Richard Grant, Author Spectra Books $18.95 (439p) ISBN 978-0-553-05190-2
Years of neglect and environmental poisoning come close to killing off the world's forests, which are forced by this crisis to evolve into a new form: sentient, thriving on industrial waste and capable of unnatural growth. When their resurgence...
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Richard Grant, Author Avon Books $6.99 (486p) ISBN 978-0-380-78676-3
Two post-1960s Mainers tumble down a well into an underworld of corporate loggers and sprites. (Oct.)
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Richard Grant, Author Avon Books $24 (340p) ISBN 978-0-380-97465-8
Wicca practitioner Pippa Rede loses her only daughter, nine-year-old Winterbelle, to representatives of the State of Maine in the droll, magical seventh novel (Tex and Molly in the Afterlife, etc.) from New England's answer to Tom Robbins. Betrayed...
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Richard Grant, Author Avon Books $24 (313p) ISBN 978-0-380-97672-0
Grant's (In the Land of Winter) acute ear for adolescent angst and a plot a step or two left of reality lift this coming-of-age tale a few inches out of the pimply preoccupations and surging hormones that dominate the genre. Stuck in an Accelerated...
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Richard Grant, Author Avon Books $24 (408p) ISBN 978-0-380-97304-0
The title doesn't quite paint the whole picture, but it does point a hitchhiker's thumb in the right direction: Grant's novel combines the literate but gonzo artistry of Tom Robbins with the obsessive spirituality of dedicated New Agers. In Dublin,...
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Richard Grant, Author . Knopf $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-26359-9
This debut novel from Maine journalist Grant, 54, opens in 1944, as minor Roosevelt administration bureaucrat Martina Panich discovers the existence of a document showing that the Nazis are systematically killing Jews by the millions. Although the...
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Richard Grant. Knopf, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-27083-2
Set in prewar Germany in 1937–1938, Grant’s intricate spy novel focuses on a young German army lieutenant sent to America on a dangerous and doomed intelligence mission. Grant (Another Green World) tells a clever story of suspense and treachery as...
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Richard Grant. Simon & Schuster, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7782-8
Smithsonian writer Grant (Dispatches from Pluto) spotlights the complex cultural and political heritage of Natchez, Miss., in this entertaining and informative travelogue. A “racially divided” town that still strongly identifies with its Confederate
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