| Description |
994 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Library of America ; 290
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Library of America ; 290.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Company she keeps -- Oasis -- Groves of academe -- A charmed life -- Stories from Cast a cold eye. Weeds -- Friend of the family -- Cicerone -- Old men -- Uncollected stories. Company is not responsible -- Unspoiled reaction -- Appalachian revolution -- Hounds of summer. |
| 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 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 Charmed Life (1955), a searing story of small-town infidelity, that McCarthy fully embraced the frank and avant-garde treatment of gender and sexuality that would inspire generations of readers and writers. Also included are all eight of McCarthy's short stories, four from her collection Cast a Cold Eye (1950), and four collected here for the first time. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.
Company that she keeps.
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Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.
Oasis.
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Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.
Groves of academe.
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Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.
Charmed life.
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Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.
Cast a cold eye. Selections.
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Mallon, Thomas, 1951- editor.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections
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Novels and stories 1942-1963 |
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Mary McCarthy : novels and stories 1942-1963 |
| ISBN |
1598535161 (hardback) |
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9781598535167 (hardback) |
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