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How I Grew - A Memoir of the Early Years by Mary McCarthy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
How I Grew explores the young adulthood of Mary McCarthy, one of the most outspoken and prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century. Focusing on eight formative years of her life--from high school in the Seattle area through college at Vassar--McCarthy reveals a girl by turns vulnerable, independen ...Show more
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the twenties, when she was orphaned in a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There were her grandmothers: one was a blood-curdling Catholic who combined piousness and pugnacity; the other was ...Show more
The Group by Mary McCarthy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 ecle ...Show more
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