Mary McCarthy

Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars. Mary McCarthy’s most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as “the group.” An eclectic mix of …

Irreverente, iconoclasta, Mary McCarthy é uma das mais destacadas intelectuais norte-americanas dos últimos tempos. Em Memórias de uma menina católica ela conta de que maneira, órfã de pai e mãe, foi educada nos mistérios e rigores da religião católica. Com o fino senso de humor que lhe é peculiar, a autora …

The electrifying portrait of an idealistic young man who is an unwilling witness to the changes in society and its values. Here is a book that captures the very essence of the 1960s and is at the same time as fresh today as when it was first published in 1965.

The Groves of Academe is a novel by American writer Mary McCarthy. Considered to be one of the first academic novels, it concerns the sequence of events that take place after Henry Mulcahy, a literary instructor at the fictive Jocelyn College, learns that his teaching appointment will not be renewed. The novel is …

This is the author’s first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthy’s bold insight and virtuoso style won her immediate recognition as one of the most accomplished, versatile, and penetrating …

A Charmed Life is a 1955 novel written by American novelist Mary McCarthy.