| Included Work | Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 Company that she keeps. |
| Included Work | Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 Oasis. |
| Included Work | Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 Groves of academe. |
| Included Work | Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 Charmed life. |
| Included Work | Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 Cast a cold eye. Selections. |
| Included Work | Mallon, Thomas, 1951- editor. |
| Uniform title | Works. Selections |
| Variant title |
Novels and stories |
| Series |
The Library of America ; 290
Library of America ; 290. ^A515081
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| Contents |
The company she keeps -- The oasis -- The groves of academe -- A charmed life -- Stories from Cast a cold eye. The weeds -- The friend of the family -- The cicerone -- The old men -- Uncollected stories. The company is not responsible -- The unspoiled reaction -- The Appalachian revolution -- The hounds of summer. |
| Abstract |
Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature-"mutual plagiarism," she called it--became the hallmark of McCarthy's fiction, which the Library of America now presents in full for the first time in deluxe collector's edition. The Oasis (1949), a wicked satire about a failed utopian community, and The Groves of Academe (1952), a pioneering campus novel depicting the insular and often absurd world of academia, burnished her reputation as an acerbic truth-teller, but it was with A Charmed Life (1955), a searing story of small-town infidelity, that McCarthy fully embraced the frank and avant-garde treatment of gender and sexuality that would inspire generations of readers and writers. Also included are all eight of McCarthy's short stories, four from her collection Cast a Cold Eye (1950), and four collected here for the first time. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Literature. |
| ISBN | 1598535161 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781598535167 (hardback) |
