Mary McCarthy
Author
Series
Library of America volume 290
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 291
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Three novels by Mary McCarthy, the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including her landmark classic The Group, as well as McCarthy's final two novels Birds of America, and Cannibals and Missionaries, plus McCarthy's 1979 essay "The Novels that Got Away," on her unfinished fiction.
The group: The lives and experiences of eight Vassar graduates during the thirty years following their graduation as they grapple with sex, sexism,...
3) How I grew
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning author offers a memoir of her adolescence, with revelations of family, neighbors, classmates and teachers, critical comments on reading, comparative views of places, and observations of various events.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2013, ©1965.
Language
English
Description
A poignant and evocative novel of self-discovery that follows a young man in America and abroad, on a journey into adulthood during the turbulent 1960s It is 1964, and Peter Levi, a young student and bird watcher, has come to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. Shy and innocent at nineteen years old, he arrives fresh from an extended Maine holiday with his vivacious mother, and is determined to live a life free of unwanted complications and unnecessary...
6) The oasis
Author
Series
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Story of a group of Americans who seek to escape the perils of present-day life by going to the New England mountains.
9) The group
Publisher
[Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment]]
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the changing roles and relationships of eight Vassar graduates during the years before the second World War.
11) Sister Kenny
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Could a simple country nurse possibly have found a treatment for polio when educated doctors have failed? This is the remarkable true story of Elizabeth Kenny, a nurse far out in the Australian bush, who follows her instincts to treat small children inflicted with the dreaded crippling disease.