Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Mary McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1985]

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? 29

A Jin Butterfly 54

The Blackguard 87

C'est le Premier Pas Qui Coute 102

Names 127

The Figures in the Clock 141

Yellowstone Park 169

Ask Me No Questions 195.

Notes:

"A Harvest book."

ISBN:

0156586509

9780156586504

OCLC:

31311478