Mary McCarthy: The Complete Fiction: A Library of America

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

For the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, all seven novels and eightÂ classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation

Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifyingÂ debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a majorÂ new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930sÂ New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life andÂ literature--"mutual plagiarism," she called it--became the hallmark of McCarthy'sÂ fiction, which the Library of America now presents in full for the first time inÂ deluxe collector's edition. The Oasis (1949), a wicked satire about a failed utopianÂ community, and The Groves of Academe (1952), a pioneering campus novelÂ depicting the insular and often absurd world of academia, burnished herÂ reputation as an acerbic truth-teller, but it was with A Charmed Life (1955), aÂ searing story of small-town infidelity, that McCarthy fully embraced the frank andÂ avant-garde treatment of gender and sexuality that would inspire generations ofÂ readers and writers. In McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), sheÂ depicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates during the 1930s as theyÂ grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family. McCarthy's final twoÂ novels--Birds of America (1971), a coming of age tale of 19-year-old Peter Levi,Â who travels to Europe during the 1960s, and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979), aÂ thriller about a group of passengers taken hostage on an airplane by militantÂ hijackers--are both concerned with the state of modern society, from theÂ cross-currents of radical social change to the psychology of terrorism. AlsoÂ included are all eight of McCarthy's short stories, four from her collection Cast aÂ Cold Eye (1950), and four collected here for the first time. As a special feature, theÂ second volume contains McCarthy's 1979 essay "The Novels that Got Away," onÂ her unfinished fiction.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 2 Volumes
ReleaseDate 2017-03-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598535181

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	2 Volumes
ReleaseDate	2017-03-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598535181

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

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