Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963
The Company She Keeps / The Oasis / The Groves of Academe / A Charmed Life
- Hardcover
1080 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2017
Summary
In the first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, four novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generationThis first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction includes four novels andeight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined agenerationIn 1942, Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifyingdebut novel,The Company She Keeps, announcing the arrival of a majornew voice in American literature. A candid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598535167 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598535161 |
| Author: | Mary McCarthy, Thomas Mallon |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1080 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 135mm |
| Series: | Library of America (Hardcover) |
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About The Author
Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), novelist, critic, and political activist, wasborn in Seattle and orphaned at age six, thereafter raised by various relativesin Minnesota and Washington. She graduated from Vassar College in 1933 andwent on to work as a critic for The New Republic, The Nation, and the PartisanReview, for which she was an editor from 1937 to 1948. She married four times,most notably in 1938 to the critic Edmund Wilson. She is the author of sevennovels as well as many other volumes of autobiography, travelogues, essays, andcriticism.Thomas Mallon, editor,Thomas Mallon is the author of nine novels, including Watergate, Finale,and Fellow Travelers, as well as seven books of nonfiction. A protege and friend of McCarthy’s, he is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review.
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