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"Birds of America" is the electrifying portrait of an idealistic young man who is an unwilling witness to the changes in society and its values, to the decline in the quality of life. In the fall of 1964 Peter Levi arrives in Paris to do his junior year at the Sorbonne after spending a singularly unusual holiday in New England with his enchanting mother. Although Levi endeavors to live his daily student life according to the laws of harmony and inner consistency, what results is disaster upon disaster and frustrated clashes with the establishment. Here is a book that captures the very essence of the 1960s and is at the same time as fresh in its observations today as when it was first published.

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An absorbing novel about a young man's voyage into adulthood, enlivened by Mary McCarthy's needling wit. You have to go away to understand home, you have to lose yourself to find yourself; Mary McCarthy's insight into her young hero - his awkward growing-up, his efforts to understand his time and place - create an authentic and thoughtful slice of cultural history. (Hilary Mantel, Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies')

One of America's leading women of letters, a writer with a reputation for acerbic insights and penetrating prose (Guardian)

Fiercely intelligent, insatiably combative, McCarthy's novels invite controversy (Penelope Lively, from the introduction)

A writer known for her immaculate prose, her wit, her glamour, her sexual adventures... and the shocking candor of her fiction (New Yorker)

There was something so crisp and clever and bold about her writing (Claire Tomalin)

McCarthy earned recognition for her cool, analytic intelligence and her exacting literary voice - a voice capable of moving from the frivolously feminine to the willfully cerebral, from girlish insouciance to bare-knuckled fury (Michiko Kakutani New York Times)

An endlessly fascinating novel (San Francisco Chronicle)

A profoundly thoughtful and moving book (Life)

In the same class as Henry James's The American and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (Esquire)

There was never anything "ladylike" about Mary McCarthy's writing. For aspiring female writers, she remains totemic. (Vanity Fair)
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THE PENGUIN WOMEN WRITERS SERIES CELEBRATES THE CENTENARY OF WOMEN GETTING THE VOTE IN BRITAIN IN 1918.

'Fiercely intelligent, insatiably combative, McCarthy's novels invite controversy' Penelope Lively, from the introduction

Peter Levi, a shy and sensitive American teenager, moves to Paris to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War, where he is determined to live a life in harmony with his own idealistic views. But the world is changing at breakneck pace, with nuclear war looming abroad and racial tensions simmering at home. Before long, Peter's naïve illusions are shattered, as he finds himself an unwilling participant in an era of extraordinary change.

Birds of America is an unforgettable and deeply moving story of personal and political turmoil; of the strange and surprising nature of growing up; and of the questions we face when we examine who we really are.

'One of America's leading women of letters, a writer with a reputation for acerbic insights and penetrating prose' Guardian

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  • PublisherThomson Learning
  • Publication date1992
  • ISBN 10 0156126303
  • ISBN 13 9780156126304
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages344
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