Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the twenties, when she was orphaned in a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There were her grandmothers: one was a blood-curdling Catholic who combined piousness and pugnacity; the other was Jewish and wore a veil to hide the disastrous effects of a face-lift. There was wicked Uncle Myers who beat her for the good of her soul and Aunt Margaret who laced her orange juice with castor oil and taped her lips at night to prevent unhealthy 'mouth-breathing'. 'Many a time in the course of doing these memoirs,' Mary McCarthy says, 'I have wished that I were writing fiction.' But these were the people, along with the ladies of the Sacred Heart convent school, who helped to inspire her devastating sense of the sublime and ridiculous and her witty, novelist's imagination.

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Religion & Spirituality

mary-mccarthy

Christian Books & Bibles

Random House Pod

The Group

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Two classics of travel literature in one volume.

The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed

Travel

Europe

Penguin

The Writing On The Wall and Other Literary Essays

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin??Books

How I Grew explores the young adulthood of MaryMcCarthy, one of the most outspoken and prominentintellectuals of the twentieth century. Focusing on eight formativeyears of her life—from high school in the Seattle areathrough college at Vassar—McCarthy reveals a girl by turnsvulnerable, independent, dramatic, lonely, inquisitive,romantic, demonstrably bright, and uncommonly daring.In candid, often intimate detail, How I Grew recountsMcCarthy’s early attempts at writing; her relationships withteachers, family, and friends; a melodramatic flirtation withsuicide; and experiences as dissimilar as her first job and herfirst seduction.A natural companion to the much-praised Memories of aCatholic Girlhood, this is a remarkable personal chronicle, anutterly convincing self-portrait, and a superb addition to theart of the autobiography.

How I Grew

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Mary McCarthy's most celebrated novel portrays the lives, and aspirations of eight Vassar graduates. "The group" meet in New York following commencement to attend the wedding of one of their members¾and reconvene seven years later at her funeral. The woman are complicated, compelling, vivid, and, above all, determined not to become stuffy and frightened like "Mother and Dad" but to lead fulfilling, emancipated lives. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel, written with the trenchant, sardonic edge that is the hallmark of Mary McCarthy's prose.

The Group (Twentieth Century Classics)

The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed (Penguin Travel Library)

Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975

Selections from the twenty-five-year correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy provide an intimate look at two important women of the twentieth century; reflects their ideas on politics, morality, and other topics; and traces the evolution of a unique friendship.

Hannah Arendt

United States

HARCOURT, BRACE

The noted American novelist, exploring the origins and development of the modernist movement in literature, surveys a wide range of works, including representative samples from nineteenthand twentieth-century British, American, French, and Russian writers

Ideas and the Novel

History & Criticism

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

This brilliant and incisive report on the Vietnam War was written by one of America's great critics.  This volume includes the complete text of the widely discussed articles that appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS together with an additional section titled, "solutions."

Vietnam

History

Military

Harcourt,brace & World

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