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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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Summary: In the second volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, three novels by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including the landmark classic The Group. In Mary McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), she depicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates during the 1930s as they grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family. McCarthy's final two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMcCarthy, Mary
Summary: Detailed collage illustrations accompanied by simple text present expanding views of familiar objects in nature, such as a bug and a flower.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2007