Mary McCarthy: The Complete Fiction (Library of America): A Library of America Boxed Set (The Library of America, 290-291) - Hardcover

McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598535188 ISBN 13: 9781598535181

Publisher: The Library of America, 2017

Synopsis

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. This volume collects this and all her subsequent work The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), her most famous novel, The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979), as well as all eight short stories. As a special feature, this collection also contains McCarthy''s 1979 essay ''The Novels that Got Away,'' on her unfinished fiction.

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About the Author

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), novelist, critic, and political activist, was born in Seattle and orphaned at age six, thereafter raised by various relatives in Minnesota and Washington. She graduated from Vassar College in 1933 and went on to work as a critic for The New Republic, The Nation, and the Partisan Review, for which she was an editor from 1937 to 1948. She married four times, most notably in 1938 to the critic Edmund Wilson. She is the author of seven novels as well as many other volumes of autobiography, travelogues, essays, and criticism.

Thomas Mallon, editor, Thomas Mallon is the author of nine novels, including Watergate, Finale, and Fellow Travelers, as well as seven books of nonfiction. A protégé and friend of McCarthy's, he is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Library of America
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598535188
• ISBN 13: 9781598535181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 2220
• Editor: Mallon Thomas