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Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

The Group / Birds of America / Cannibals and Missionaries

ISBN-13: 9781598535174

Contributor(s): Mary McCarthy (author), Thomas Mallon (edited by)

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Library Of America

Publication Date: 23-03-2017

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£42.99

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About the book

In McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), she depicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates during the 1930s as they grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family. McCarthy's final two novels - Birds of America (1971) and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979 - are both concerned with the state of modern society, from the cross-currents of radical social change to the psychology of terrorism. As a special feature, this second volume contains McCarthy's 1979 essay 'The Novels that Got Away,' on her unfinished fiction.