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Mary McCarthy

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

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

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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 generation.Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature--mutual plagiarism, she called it--became the hallmark of McCarthy's fiction, which the Library of America now presents in full for the first time in deluxe… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Mallon, Thomas
  • ISBN: 978-1-59853-516-7
  • EAN: 9781598535167
  • Produktnummer: 20237209
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 1080 S.
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.4 cm x D3.0 cm 649 g
  • Reihenbandnummer: 290
  • Gewicht: 649

Über den Autor


Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), novelist, critic, and political activist, was born in Seattle and orphaned at age six, thereafter raised by various relatives in Minnesota and Washington. She graduated from Vassar College in 1933 and went on to work as a critic for The New Republic, The Nation, and the Partisan Review, 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 seven novels as well as many other volumes of autobiography, travelogues, essays, and criticism.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 protégé 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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