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Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy / Frances Kiernan.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3525.A1435 Z69 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kiernan, Frances.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.
- McCarthy, Mary.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2000]
- Summary:
- At last, a biography rich in delicious gossip, ironic judgment, and eloquent testimony of Mary McCarthy, one of the most controversial American intellectuals of this century. of photos.
- Contents:
- 1. MacDowell 15
- 2. Minneapolis 29
- 3. Seattle 44
- 4. Vassar 61
- 5. Mrs. Harold Johnsrud 87
- 6. Partisan Review 110
- 7. Edmund Wilson 134
- 8. The Minotaur 166
- 9. The Summer of '45 212
- 10. Bard 235
- 11. Mrs. Bowden Broadwater 261
- 12. The Oasis 286
- 13. Newport 315
- 14. New York 342
- 15. The Cape 365
- 16. Venice 388
- 17. B.B. and J.D. 424
- 18. Jim West 455
- 19. Lady of Letters 482
- 20. The Group 509
- 21. Fame 542
- 22. Vietnam 573
- 23. Castine 610
- 24. Death of Old Friends 639
- 25. The Hellman Suit 670
- 26. A Full Life 704.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393038017
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