β Mary NcCarthy
π Fiction
π
2017
π Library of America
π English
β 809 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Mary McCarthy: NOVELS & STORIES 1942β1963
β Scribed by Mary McCarthy
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 701 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 literatureβ"mutual plagiarism," she called itβbecame the hallmark of McCarthy's fiction, which the Library of America now presents in full for the first time in deluxe collector's edition. The Oasis (1949), a wicked satire about a failed utopian community, and The Groves of Academe (1952), a pioneering campus novel depicting the insular and often absurd world of academia, burnished her reputation as an acerbic truth-teller, but it was with A...
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