The electrifying portrait of an idealistic young man who is an unwilling witness to the changes in society and its values. Here is a book that captures the very essence of the 1960s and is at the same time as fresh today as when it was first published in 1965.
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MARY MCCARTHY (1912-1989) was a short-story writer, bestselling novelist, essayist, and critic. She was the author of The Stones of Florence and Birds of America, among other books.
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A really first-rate novel by a first-rate writer,
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This review is from: Birds Of America (Paperback)
Mary McCarthy has never gotten her due as a prose writer and this -- her best novel -- seems to have been overlooked. This is the story of a young man 's emancipation from his very much loved mother (with whom he has an almost romantic relationship based on her attractiveness and their shared sensibility). They construct an ideal life together in which they eschew all "modern" conveniences for the niceties of the past. She remarries and he is launched as an adult, going to Paris to school, where he attempts to apply his interpretation of Kant's moral imperative to the various experiences he has (including one very funny-painful episode in which he invites a urine-soaked clochard to share his quarters). It is a completely delightful book and can be reread with pleasure. She is a master story teller.
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Fiction and Philosophy together is priceless.,
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This review is from: Birds Of America (Paperback)
I was so incredibly inspired by someone that truly understands Kantian ethics, and how to apply them. Mary McCarthy was obviously very well educated and intelligent, this book was so good that I was wondering why she was not a part of the literature classes that I took in college. Her very endearing and intimate writing style has me in awe. I really want to send this book to my former philosophy professor and see what he thinks. If you like a good novel and philosophy both, read this book.
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- Water Music: for Orchestra by George Friederic Handel on page 17, and page 24
- Salvemini French Revolution (1788-92) by G. Salvemini on page 144
- Americans in Paris: Great Short Stories of the City of Light by Diane Johnson on page 244
- Occasional Prose: Essays by Mary McCarthy in Front Matter
- Cast A Cold Eye by Mary McCarthy in Front Matter
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- Living Philosophy by Christopher Hamilton on 5 pages
- Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy: The Writer and Her Work (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) by Eve Stwertka on page 30, page 100, and page 118
- The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Cast A Cold Eye by Mary McCarthy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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