{"product_id":"mary-mccarthy-novels-stories-19421963-loa-290-isbn-9781598535167","title":"Mary McCarthy: Novels \u0026 Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction includes four novels and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eeight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003egeneration\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1942, Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel,\u003ci\u003e The Company She Keeps\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Oasis\u003c\/i\u003e (1949), a wicked satire about a failed utopian community, and \u003ci\u003eThe Groves of Academe\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eA Charmed Life \u003c\/i\u003e(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 \u003ci\u003eCast a Cold Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1950), and four collected here for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003cb\u003eMary McCarthy \u003c\/b\u003e(1912-1989), novelist, critic, and political activist, was born in Seattle and orphaned at age six, thereafter raised by various relatives in Minnesota and Washington. She graduated from Vassar College in 1933 and went on to work as a critic for \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she was an editor from 1937 to 1948. She married four times, most notably in 1938 to the critic Edmund Wilson. She is the author of seven novels as well as many other volumes of autobiography, travelogues, essays, and criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Mallon\u003c\/b\u003e, editor, Thomas Mallon is the author of nine novels, including \u003ci\u003eWatergate\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Finale, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFellow Travelers, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as seven books of nonfiction.  A protégé and friend of McCarthy's, he is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305396457701,"sku":"NP9781598535167","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598535167.jpg?v=1767732357","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mary-mccarthy-novels-stories-19421963-loa-290-isbn-9781598535167","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}