The company she keeps : a novel / Mary McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Road Media Integrated Media, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A novel in six episodes, this stunning debut by Mary McCarthy follows a young intellectual on her reckless bohemian journey through life and dangerous love in 1930s New York CityMargaret Sargent is young and fearless, a deep thinker inspired by the bohemian energy that abounds in New York City in the years leading up to the Second World War. With careless abandon, she destroys her marriage and numerous love affairs as she moves through the social circles of artists and writers, playing at the fringes of political extremism. She is an enigma, often wanton and frivolous, but possessing intellige

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Contents; ONE Cruel and Barbarous Treatment; TWO Rogue''s Gallery; THREE The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt; FOUR The Genial Host; FIVE Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man; SIX Ghostly Father, I Confess; Acknowledgements; A Biography of Mary McCarthy; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781480438347

1480438340