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Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938

By McCarthy , Mary

Book information

Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2013
ISBN
9781480441262, 1480441260
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2821347 bytes)
Pages
229 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

In this no-holds-barred memoir with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick, the bestselling author of The Group recalls her early life in New York, revealing the genesis of and genius behind her groundbreaking fiction Mary McCarthy is a married twenty-four-year-old Communist and critic when this memoir begins. She's disciplined, dedicated, and sexually experimental: At one point she realizes that in twenty-four hours she "had slept with three different men." But she believes in the institution of marriage. Over the course of three years, she will have had two husbands, the second being the esteemed,;Cover; Title Page; Contents; FOREWORD; ONE; TWO; THREE; A BIOGRAPHY OF MARY MCCARTHY; NOTES; INDEX; Copyright.

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