Book description
These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary
McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New
York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book
follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her
experiences and lost loves in a time of coming war. On publication in
1942, its bold insight, sly wit and virtuoso style won Mary McCarthy
immediate recogntion as one of the most accomplished, versatile and
penetrating writers in America. Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a
well-known novelist, critic, journalist and memoirist. Her most famous
novel is THE GROUP.
