Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Mary McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Harvest/HBJ book

A harvest/HBJ book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.

McCarthy, Mary.

Authors, American--Biography.

Authors, American.

Women authors, American--Biography.

Women authors, American.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

245 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1957]

Summary:

Mary McCarthy enjoyed an indulgent, idyllic childhood until 1918, when the terrible national influenza epidemic led to the death of her parents. Hoping to keep the children out of Protestant hands, her Catholic grandparents in Minneapolis sent Mary and her three brothers to live with relatives, cruel and repressive Dickensian figures who beat them. Eventually Mary was sent to convent school in Seattle, where she struggled with issues of faith and morality, and then Episcopalian seminary, where she discovered the Latin classics and began her transition from girlhood to adolescence. In telling this extraordinary tale, McCarthy drew on her skill as a novelist to relate a unique early life with irony, humor, and devastating honesty.

Contents:

Yonder Peasant, Who Is He?

A tin Butterfly

The Blackguard

C'est le Premier Pas Qui Coute

Names

The Figures in the Clock

Yellowstone Park

Ask Me No Questions.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Memories of a Catholic girlhood.

ISBN:

0156586509

9780156586504

0151588597

9780151588596

OCLC:

4837098

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