Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 (LOA #291) Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 (LOA #291)
Book 2 - Library of America Mary McCarthy Edition

Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 (LOA #291‪)‬

The Group / Birds of America / Cannibals and Missionaries

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Publisher Description

A collection of three novels by the author who transformed the scope and style of twentieth-century American literature—including the landmark classic The Group

In Mary 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), a coming of age tale of 19-year-old Peter Levi, who travels to Europe during the 1960s, and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979), a thriller about a group of passengers taken hostage on an airplane by militant hijackers—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.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
21 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
1,140
Pages
PUBLISHER
Library of America
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
3.9
MB
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