Mary Mccarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963: The Company She Keeps / The Oasis / The Groves of Academe / A Charmed Life

Mary McCarthy

Mary Mccarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963: The Company She Keeps / The Oasis / The Groves of Academe / A Charmed Life
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The Library of America
Country
United States
Published
21 March 2017
Pages
1080
ISBN
9781598535167

Mary Mccarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963: The Company She Keeps / The Oasis / The Groves of Academe / A Charmed Life

Mary McCarthy

In the first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, four novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation.

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.

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