Description - Mary Mccarthy: The Complete Fiction by Mary McCarthy
For the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, all seven novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation
For the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, all seven novels and eightclassic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation
Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifyingdebut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a majornew voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930sNew York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life andliterature--"mutual plagiarism," she called it--became the hallmark of McCarthy'sfiction, which the Library of America now presents in full for the first time indeluxe collector's edition. The Oasis (1949), a wicked satire about a failed utopiancommunity, and The Groves of Academe (1952), a pioneering campus noveldepicting the insular and often absurd world of academia, burnished herreputation as an acerbic truth-teller, but it was with A Charmed Life (1955), asearing story of small-town infidelity, that McCarthy fully embraced the frank andavant-garde treatment of gender and sexuality that would inspire generations ofreaders and writers. In McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), shedepicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates during the 1930s as theygrapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family. McCarthy's final twonovels--Birds of America (1971), a coming of age tale of 19-year-old Peter Levi,who travels to Europe during the 1960s, and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979), athriller about a group of passengers taken hostage on an airplane by militanthijackers--are both concerned with the state of modern society, from thecross-currents of radical social change to the psychology of terrorism. Alsoincluded are all eight of McCarthy's short stories, four from her collection Cast aCold Eye (1950), and four collected here for the first time. As a special feature, thesecond volume contains McCarthy's 1979 essay "The Novels that Got Away," onher unfinished fiction.
LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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