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Paperback Books by Mary McCarthy
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| The Company She Keeps |
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| by Mary McCarthy |
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| This is the author's first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthy's bold insight and virtuoso style won her... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2003 |
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| The Groves of Academe |
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| by Mary McCarthy |
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| Professor Henry Mulcahy is dismissed from the English department of Jocelyn College (based on Bard College). He gets support from the faculty--not because of Mulcahy's merits as a scholar and teacher, but because of sympathy for his wife's... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2002 |
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| The Oasis |
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| by Mary McCarthy |
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| The Oasis, McCarthy's second novel, won a contest orgnized by Cyril Connelly, the British critic and editor of the prestigious literary magazine Horizon, and was first published as the February 1949 edition of that magazine.... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 1999 |
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| Publication Date: June 1993 |
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| The Group |
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| by Mary McCarthy |
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| McCarthy's most celebrated novel portrays the experiences of eight young women from Vassar College, Class of ‘33. As the story opens, they meet in New York City for the wedding of Kay, one of “the group.” The author then describes the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1991 |
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| Memories of a Catholic Girlhood |
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| by Mary McCarthy |
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| This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy's recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need to fictionalize for the sake of a good... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 1972 |
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| Publication Date: September 1963 |
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