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  • The Group

    A Novel

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    This smash hit and must-read classic about privileged Vassar classmates that shocked America in the sixties remains "juicy . . . witty . . . brilliant" ( Cosmopolitan ).At Vassar, they were known as "the group" —eight young women of privilege, the closest of friends, an eclectic mix of vibrant personalities. A week after graduation in 1933, they all gather for the wedding of Kay Strong, one of ... Read more

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  • Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Tracing her moral struggles to the day she accidentally took a sip of water before her Communion—a mortal sin—Mary McCarthy gives us eight funny and heartrending essays about the illusive and redemptive nature of memory" During the course of writing this, I've often wished that I were writing fiction."Originally published in large part as standalone essays in the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar, ... Read more

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  • Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs

    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, How I Grew, and Intellectual Memoirs

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Three candid, affecting memoirs by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group, including a National Book Award finalist.In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy begins with her recollections of a happy childhood cut tragically short by the death of her parents during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering memory with invention, McCarthy describes how, orphaned at six, she ... Read more

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  • Mary McCarthy's Italy

    The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Captivating portraits of two of the world's most beguiling cities from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group.Mary McCarthy blends art, politics, religion, music, and history to create unique living portraits of two of Italy's most enchanting cities in these enthralling books now available in one volume.The Stones of Florence: The book Library Journal called "Mary McCarthy's classic" ... Read more

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  • The Collected Essays Volume Two

    Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937–1962 and On the Contrary

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Candid, sharp, and entertaining essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and a "delightfully polished writer" ( The Atlantic Monthly).Whether penning criticism, memoir, or fiction, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Group invariably wrote with "an icily honest eye and a glacial wit" ( The New York Times). Gathered here are two memorable ... Read more

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  • The Stones of Florence

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Eloquent and assured, Mary McCarthy's The Stones of Florence beckons the reader on a brisk but sweeping tour of the birthplace of the Renaissance and the legendary home of the Medici, Dante, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, and other giants of the age. Her keen observations of this famously alluring city speak to Florence's persistent character and magnetism-and the attraction it exerted over the first ... Read more

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  • Vietnam

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Hailed as "the most provocative and disturbing analytical indictment . . . of America's role in Vietnam" by the New York Times, this is Mary McCarthy's riveting account of her journeys to Saigon and HanoiIn 1967, the editor of the New York Review of Books sent Mary McCarthy to Vietnam. In this daring and incisive account , McCarthy brings her critical thinking and novelist's eye to one of the ... Read more

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  • The Collected Novels Volume Two

    A Charmed Life, The Groves of Academe, and Cannibals and Missionaries

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Sharply observed literary fiction from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group and a "delightfully polished writer" ( The Atlantic Monthly).New York Times–bestselling author Mary McCarthy wrote with "an icily honest eye and a glacial wit that make her portraits stingingly memorable" ( The New York Times). From a trenchant portrait of marriage to an academic satire to an ... Read more

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  • Intellectual Memoirs

    New York, 1936–1938

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    In this no-holds-barred memoir with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick, the bestselling author of The Group recalls her early life in New York, revealing the genesis of and genius behind her groundbreaking fictionMary McCarthy is a married twenty-four-year-old Communist and critic when this memoir begins. She's disciplined, dedicated, and sexually experimental: At one point she realizes that in ... Read more

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  • Cast a Cold Eye

    Stories

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Seven "remarkable" stories from the bestselling author of The Group ( The New York Times).Two American tourists find themselves seriously befuddled by their unorthodox Italian guide. A hospitalized graduate student turns the sounds of pain and despair into music. A family is tragically taken apart, and then reformed, by a deadly outbreak of influenza. The short fiction in this collection, some of ... Read more

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  • Cannibals and Missionaries

    A Novel

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    A riveting and unconventional thriller about a motley group of airplane passengers taken hostage by militant hijackersEn route to Iran, a plane is captured by Middle Eastern terrorists intent on holding hostage the committee of politicians, religious leaders, and activists on a mission to investigate alleged human rights violations by the shah. But the kidnappers soon discover that there is a ... Read more

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  • Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290)

    The Company She Keeps / The Oasis / The Groves of Academe / A Charmed Life / stories

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America Mary McCarthy Edition
    This first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction includes four novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generationIn 1942, Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps, announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York ... Read more

    $19.99 USD