The author has had the full co-operation of her subject in this biography of one of the leading novelists of post-war America. Mary McCarthy wrote "The Group", a novel which made a considerable impact, and a book about her extraordinary childhood - "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood".
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This first comprehensive biography of Mary McCarthy surveys the career of a prominent American literary figure of the past 50 years. Having interviewed McCarthy and many of her contemporaries and having had access to previously unavailable correspondence, Gelderman (Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist) presents a lively picture of left-wing literary politics in the 1930s (with still another account of the Partisan Review crowd) and the development of McCarthy's long-standing anti-Stalinism. She evaluates the significant influences of Nicola Chiaromonte and Hannah Arendt and is objective but sympathetic about McCarthy's four marriages and various affairs, her protests against the war in Vietnam and her controversy with Lillian Hellman. Also demonstrating the strong relationship between McCarthy's life and writings, Gelderman is particularly successful in balancing McCarthy's competitiveness, sharp tongue andrelentless pen, for which she is well known, with her impulsiveness, generosity, charm, domesticity and friendliness. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
McCarthy, novelist, critic, and a guiding light behind Partisan Review , was orphaned early and raised a Catholic in privileged circumstances that included a Vassar education. Among the first of the American left to decry the 1930s Stalinist purge trials, she later vehemently opposed the Vietnam War. This thorough biography dutifully traces her career, writings, four marriages, and legal battles with Lillian Hellman, but it lacks deep feeling. McCarthy's outspokenness is documented, but an intimate understanding of her character remains elusive. The brilliant, hard-drinking critic Edmund Wilson, who beat her during their marriage while staunchly supporting her writing, seems more vivdly drawn than McCarthy herself. Still, McCarthy's stature may generate demand. Bettina Drew, City Coll., CUNY
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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