Mary McCarthy
Personal Information
Description
Amazon bio for A Closer Look - "Mary McCarthy's one-of-a-kind and limited edition artist's books have been collected by private collectors and major institutions across the United States, including the Library of Congress and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She has taught bookmaking and she is the co-author of the popular manual Making Books by Hand. Mary McCarthy lives in Boston, Massachusetts"
Books
The Writing on the Wall
Vietnam
The group
THE 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.
How I grew
The award-winning author offers a memoir of her adolescence, with revelations of family, neighbors, classmates and teachers, critical comments on reading, comparative views of places, and observations of various events.
The company she keeps
Six episodes that tell of the experiences of a girl, in her twenties and on her own in New York, fuse into a portrait of an individual and a revelation of a distinct social milieu.
The stones of Florence
Picture-and-text book on Italy. Includes all aspects of Florentine life, from art and architecture to religion and politics.
Novels 1963-1979
For 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.
Intellectual memoirs
Reveals the autobiographical impulse behind much of Mary McCarthy's most popular work ; chronicles the beginnings of her literary career, just as she is becoming not only a writer but a literary personality.