The Company She Keeps (Virago Modern Classics)

The Company She Keeps (Virago Modern Classics)

by Paula McLain (Introduction), Mary McCarthy (Author)

Synopsis

These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her experiences and lost loves in a time of coming war. On publication in 1942, its bold insight, sly wit and virtuoso style won Mary McCarthy immediate recogntion as one of the most accomplished, versatile and penetrating writers in America.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Virago
Published: 03 Nov 2011

ISBN 10: 1844085945
ISBN 13: 9781844085941
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Media Reviews
A consummate piece of work * Norman Mailer *
McCarthy exposes the complex psychological workings of a brilliant, tortured and manipulative mind . . . Timeless, brilliant and frighteningly insightful * Daily Mail *
McCarthy may be best known for The Group but her debut novel made nearly as much of a splash when [first] published in 1942 . . . A jagged diamond of a book, the multifaceted parts giving a glimpse of a brilliant but fractured whole * Observer *
Author Bio
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a well-known novelist, critic, journalist and memoirist. Her most famous novel is THE GROUP.