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Warbler Classics The Stones of Florence
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Fitzcarraldo Editions Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Book SynopsisMary McCarthy, one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century, skewers her strict Catholic upbringing in this witty and compelling memoir, one of her major works.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Company She Keeps
Book SynopsisBY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GROUP ''A jagged diamond of a book'' OBSERVER ''A woman of intellect and style'' CELIA MCGEE, NEW YORK TIMES''Timeless, brilliant and frighteningly insightful'' DAILY MAIL Told through six interlinked stories, this is a dazzling, fractured portrait of 1930s New York, and of the witty, bohemian heroine at the novel''s heart. Through her encounters and experiences - with men, with radical politics, with psychoanalysis - we follow Margaret Sargent as she negotiates a fraught relationship between love and independence in a time of coming war. Based loosely on the author''s own life, The Company She Keeps caused an instant sensation, and won Mary McCarthy immediate acclaim for its bold insight, sly wit and virtuoso style.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Group
Book Synopsis''Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant'' COSMOPOLITAN''A brilliant novel: honest, engaging and sharp as a tack'' SARAH WATERS''Lively, vivid and exceedingly entertaining'' SUNDAY TIMES Not one of them, if she could help it, was going to marry a broker or a banker or a cold-fish corporation lawyer. . .New York, 1930. Eight Vassar graduates meet in New York to attend the wedding of one of their friends - and reconvene seven years later at her funeral. Young and fearless, they vow not to become stuffy and frightened like their parents, but to lead fulfilling, emancipated lives. But which of them will achieve that dream - and at what cost?Ground-breaking in its fearless portrayal of female friendship, sex and the struggle to have it all, The Group was a revelation, a scandal, and an instant bestseller.''McCarthy''s characters confront many of the same issues as their modern counterparts: sex and contraception, career and marriage, love and lust, fidelity to one''s husband versus loyalty to one''s friends and the attempt to carve out a place for oneself unconstrained by the gender limitations of previous generations. Its continuing relevance is one of the book''s most extraordinary attributes'' ELIZABETH DAY, GUARDIAN
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Mariner Books Classics The Group Harvest Book
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Closer Look
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El oasis
Book SynopsisA finales de los años cuarenta, un grupo de entusiastas neoyorquinos, intelectuales urbanitas, se aventuran en las montañas de Nueva Inglaterra para crear una comuna a la que deciden bautizar muy apropiadamente como Utopía. Sin embargo, pronto surgen la discordia y el cisma ideológico entre las dos facciones del grupo: los utópicos puristas, entre los que se cuentan el estruendoso editor libertario Macdougal Macdermott, que carece de opinión propia, o la bienintencionada Katy Norell, que enel fondo solo desea agradar a los demás, y los realistas, encabezados por el amargado exmarxista William Taub, que pretende reírse del fracaso de Utopía al tiempo que alberga la secreta esperanza de que prospere. Así, alternarán periodos líricos de paz pastoral con la concepción de ideas alocadas, como crear unos Estados Unidos deEuropa en el exilio, hasta desembocar en un desenlace previsiblemente desastroso.Más controvertida y ácida que nunca, McCarthy se inspira sin disimulo alguno en
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btb Taschenbuch Die Clique Roman
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Little, Brown Book Group The Company She Keeps
Book SynopsisThese six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her experiences and lost loves in a time of coming war. On publication in 1942, its bold insight, sly wit and virtuoso style won Mary McCarthy immediate recogntion as one of the most accomplished, versatile and penetrating writers in America.Trade ReviewMary McCarthy's debut collection of short stories caused a sensation in 1942 and is no less vibrant today * Guardian *McCarthy may be best known for The Group but her debut novel made nearly as much of a splash when [first] published in 1942 . . . A jagged diamond of a book, the multifaceted parts giving a glimpse of a brilliant but fractured whole * Observer *McCarthy exposes the complex psychological workings of a brilliant, tortured and manipulative mind . . . Could have been written today. Timeless, brilliant and frighteningly insightful * Daily Mail *A consummate piece of work -- Norman MailerClever, witty, polished * New York Times *
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The Library of America Mary Mccarthy: Novels 1963-1979: The Group /
Book SynopsisIn the second volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, three novels by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including the landmark classic The Group
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Batiscafo Grupo, El
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btb Taschenbuch Die Clique
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Mariner Books Classics The Stones of Florence
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Dalkey Archive Press Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
Book SynopsisThe interconnected stones that form Felipe Alfau's novel LOCOS take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young 'author' "For them", he complains, "reality is what fiction is to real people; they simply love it and make for it against ray almost heroic opposition" Alfau's "comedy of gestures" -- a mercurial dreamscape of the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy -- was written in English and first published in 1936, favorably reviewed for The Nation by Mary McCarthy, as she recounts here in her Afterword, then long neglected.Trade Review"You keep reading this hypnotic novel the way a sleeping person wants to keep dreaming." — Publisher's Weekly"Alfau's inventive 'comedy of gestures' is, like any hall of mirrors fun house, disorienting, maddening, and greatly entertaining. It has everything any modern best-seller needs: murder, incest, fallen priests, Iascivious nuns, a couple of suicides, several mysteries, the living dead, pimps and whores and poets, locales that shift from China to the Philippines to the Caribbean to Europe." — Washington Post
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The Library of America Mary Mccarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963: The
Book SynopsisIn 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
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Melville House Publishing Oasis: A Novel
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The Library of America Mary Mccarthy: The Complete Fiction
Book SynopsisFor the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, all seven novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation
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Princeton University Press On the Iliad
Book SynopsisContents include: The Style of the Mythical Age: An Introduction by Hermann Broch ON THE ILIAD Hector Thetis and Achilles Helen The Comedy of the Gods Troy and Moscow Priam and Achilles Break Bread Poets and Prophets Originally published in 1947. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-d
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Little, Brown Book Group The Group
Book Synopsis''Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant'' COSMOPOLITAN''A brilliant novel: honest, engaging and sharp as a tack'' SARAH WATERS''Lively, vivid and exceedingly entertaining'' SUNDAY TIMESThis groundbreaking novel celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023. One of the first novels to frankly depict friendship, sex and women''s lives. It was a revelation and continues to inspire today.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIMary McCarthy''s most celebrated novel portrays the lives and aspirations of eight Vassar graduates. ''The group'' meet in New York following graduation to attend the wedding of one of their friends - and reconvene seven years later at her funeral. The women, fresh from college, vowed not to become stuffy and frightened like their parents, but to lead fulfilling, emancipated lives. Who really achieved this - and what sacrifices and compromises had to be made?''McTrade ReviewAbsorbing, funny, painful . . . I consider it a masterpiece -- Hilary MantelShocking, titillating, and acid-laced . . . the book still dazzles as a generational portrait, falters as fiction, and blighted McCarthy's life -- Laura Jacobs * Vanity Fair *A brilliant novel: honest, engaging and sharp as a tack -- Sarah WatersMcCarthy's characters confront many of the same issues as their modern counterparts: sex and contraception, career and marriage, love and lust, fidelity to one's husband versus loyalty to one's friends and the attempt to carve out a place for oneself unconstrained by the gender limitations of previous generations. Its continuing relevance is one of the book's most extraordinary attributes -- Elizabeth Day * Guardian *Few works of literature can genuinely be termed "ahead of their time" * The Times *Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant * Cosmopolitan *Lively, vivid and exceedingly entertaining * Sunday Times *One of my favourite books ever -- India KnightA woman of intellect and style -- Celia McGee * New York Times *Her greatest novel . . . marvellous . . . a prophetic book which set the scene . . . for the novels of protest and liberation in the next decade * Independent *Feels like discovering a thrilling secret. Its prose shows a master stylist at work, its aesthetics are striking - all ivory-tipped cigarettes, hand-pureed pâté, Vassar socialists in dungarees - and it has a surprise queer romance that twists the whole narrative into new shape. It's my new standard for a summer read: lavish, hilarious, smart and mean, like a glamorous friend you're torn between fearing and crushing on -- Mikaella ClementsScalpel-keen prose, honed on ruthless wit and insight * Observer *She is a sparkler, a very funny, very savage moralist, and a brilliant mimic * Spectator *This is the book which has aroused considerable advance speculation and well it might; it has a tremendous reader recognition . . . there cannot be much doubt that Mary McCarthy is an exceptional social satirist, with a jackdaw eye and an infallible ear * Kirkus Reviews *McCarthy's dissection of this disparate group - highly educated but powerless in a world of men - is witty and merciless but tinged with sadness. * Daily Mail *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Group: A New York Times Best Seller
Book SynopsisTHE GROUP follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan. THE GROUP can be seen as the original SEX AND THE CITY. It is the first novel to frankly portray women's real lives, exploring subjects such as sex, contraception, motherhood and marriage.Trade ReviewAbsorbing, funny, painful . . . I consider it a masterpiece -- Hilary MantelShocking, titillating, and acid-laced . . . the book still dazzles as a generational portrait, falters as fiction, and blighted McCarthy's life -- Laura Jacobs * Vanity Fair *A brilliant novel: honest, engaging and sharp as a tack -- Sarah WatersMcCarthy's characters confront many of the same issues as their modern counterparts: sex and contraception, career and marriage, love and lust, fidelity to one's husband versus loyalty to one's friends and the attempt to carve out a place for oneself unconstrained by the gender limitations of previous generations. Its continuing relevance is one of the book's most extraordinary attributes -- Elizabeth Day * Guardian *Few works of literature can genuinely be termed "ahead of their time" * The Times *Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant * Cosmopolitan *Lively, vivid and exceedingly entertaining * Sunday Times *One of my favourite books ever -- India KnightA woman of intellect and style -- Celia McGee * New York Times *Her greatest novel . . . marvellous . . . a prophetic book which set the scene . . . for the novels of protest and liberation in the next decade * Independent *Feels like discovering a thrilling secret. Its prose shows a master stylist at work, its aesthetics are striking - all ivory-tipped cigarettes, hand-pureed pâté, Vassar socialists in dungarees - and it has a surprise queer romance that twists the whole narrative into new shape. It's my new standard for a summer read: lavish, hilarious, smart and mean, like a glamorous friend you're torn between fearing and crushing on -- Mikaella ClementsScalpel-keen prose, honed on ruthless wit and insight * Observer *She is a sparkler, a very funny, very savage moralist, and a brilliant mimic * Spectator *This is the book which has aroused considerable advance speculation and well it might; it has a tremendous reader recognition . . . there cannot be much doubt that Mary McCarthy is an exceptional social satirist, with a jackdaw eye and an infallible ear * Kirkus Reviews *McCarthy's dissection of this disparate group - highly educated but powerless in a world of men - is witty and merciless but tinged with sadness. * Daily Mail **'A brilliant novel:honest, engaging and sharp as a tack * Sarah Waters **'One of my favourite books ever * India Knight *Lively, vivid and exceedingly entertaining * SUNDAY TIMES *Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant * COSMOPOLITAN *
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