A few years later, I also cleaned a fish-a bluefish-for the author of "The Fish."When I read The Group, I read it pretty certain that I knew who the compulsive reader character was, and the one who traveled around the world. Her poem about that loss, "The art of losing isn't hard to master," was completed in Rhoda's Hurricane House, where I interviewed Bishop on prosody. Rhoda was my colleague at Bristol Community College in Fall River, MA, where she brought her other famous author friend to read several years in a row in the late 70s, Eiizabeth Bishop, back from Brazil and after her Brazilian friend died. Rhoda, a German major in college, had seen Hitler after curfew in Berlin, in his car. I read this book over forty years ago, living in a room Mary McCarthy may have stayed in, since she visited the house of her Vassar '33 classmate, Rhoda Wheeler (Sheehan).
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author’s estate.
A blistering satire of the mores of an emergent generation of women, The Group is McCarthy’s enduring masterpiece, still as relevant, powerful, and wonderfully entertaining fifty years on. But it is tragedy that will ultimately unite the group once again.Ī novel that stunned the world when it was first published in 1963, Mary McCarthy’s The Group found acclaim, controversy, and a place atop the New York Times bestseller list for nearly two years for its frank and controversial exploration of women’s issues, social concerns, and sexuality. Some will play important roles in the personal dramas of others. In the years that follow, they will each know accomplishment and loss in equal measure, pursuing careers and marriage, experiencing the joys and traumas of sexual awakening and motherhood, all while suffering through betrayals, infidelities, and sometimes madness.
A week after graduation in 1933, they all gather for the wedding of Kay Strong, one of their own, before going their separate ways in the world. brilliant” ( Cosmopolitan).Īt Vassar, they were known as “the group”-eight young women of privilege, the closest of friends, an eclectic mix of vibrant personalities. This smash bestseller about privileged Vassar classmates shocked America in the sixties and remains “juicy.
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