Novels 1963-1979 : The group ; Birds of America ; Cannibals and missionaries / Mary McCarthy ; Thomas Mallon, editor.
2017
PS3525.A1435 A6 2017b (Mapit)
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Title
Novels 1963-1979 : The group ; Birds of America ; Cannibals and missionaries / Mary McCarthy ; Thomas Mallon, editor.
Uniform Title
Novels. Selections
ISBN
9781598535174 (hardcover)
159853517X (hardcover)
159853517X (hardcover)
Published
New York : The Library of America, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1072 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PS3525.A1435 A6 2017b
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.52
Summary
Three novels by Mary McCarthy, the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including her landmark classic The Group, as well as McCarthy's final two novels Birds of America, and Cannibals and Missionaries, plus McCarthy's 1979 essay "The Novels that Got Away," on her unfinished fiction.
The group: The lives and experiences of eight Vassar graduates during the thirty years following their graduation as they grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family.
Birds of America: In 1964, a young man arrives in France to do his junior year at the Sorbonne. Although he endeavors to live his daily student life according to the laws of harmony and inner consistency, what results is disaster upon disaster and frustrated clashes with the establishment, as he becomes an unwilling witness to the changes in society and its values and to the decline in the quality of life.
Cannibals and missionaries: A committee of human rights advocates flies to Iran in 1975 to investigate charges of torture; on the same plane is a group of art collectors to visit Iranian museums and archaeological sites. The plane is hijacked, and both groups become hostages.
Cannibals and missionaries: An unconventional thriller about a group of airplane passengers taken hostage by militant Middle Eastern hijackers en route to Iran in 1975. The passengers include a committee of politicians, religious leaders, and activists on a mission to investigate alleged human rights violations by the shah-- as well as prominent art collectors with access to some of the world's most valuable paintings-- priceless works that could fund global terrorist activities for decades.
The group: The lives and experiences of eight Vassar graduates during the thirty years following their graduation as they grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family.
Birds of America: In 1964, a young man arrives in France to do his junior year at the Sorbonne. Although he endeavors to live his daily student life according to the laws of harmony and inner consistency, what results is disaster upon disaster and frustrated clashes with the establishment, as he becomes an unwilling witness to the changes in society and its values and to the decline in the quality of life.
Cannibals and missionaries: A committee of human rights advocates flies to Iran in 1975 to investigate charges of torture; on the same plane is a group of art collectors to visit Iranian museums and archaeological sites. The plane is hijacked, and both groups become hostages.
Cannibals and missionaries: An unconventional thriller about a group of airplane passengers taken hostage by militant Middle Eastern hijackers en route to Iran in 1975. The passengers include a committee of politicians, religious leaders, and activists on a mission to investigate alleged human rights violations by the shah-- as well as prominent art collectors with access to some of the world's most valuable paintings-- priceless works that could fund global terrorist activities for decades.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Group.
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Birds of America.
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Cannibals and Missionaries.
Mallon, Thomas, 1951- editor.
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Birds of America.
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Cannibals and Missionaries.
Mallon, Thomas, 1951- editor.
Series
Library of America ; 291.
Includes
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Group.
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Birds of America.
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Cannibals and Missionaries.
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Birds of America.
Container of (work): McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. Cannibals and Missionaries.
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Table of Contents
The group (1963)
Birds of America (1971)
Cannibals and missionaries (1979).
Birds of America (1971)
Cannibals and missionaries (1979).