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Eight Vassar graduates meet in New York to attend the wedding of one of their friends - and reconvene seven years later at her funeral. Young and fearless, they vow not to become stuffy and frightened like their parents, but to lead fulfilling, emancipated lives. But which of them will achieve that dream - and at what cost?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGround-breaking in its fearless portrayal of female friendship, sex and the struggle to have it all, \u003ci\u003eThe Group \u003c\/i\u003ewas a  revelation, a scandal, and an instant bestseller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'McCarthy's characters confront many of the same issues as their modern counterparts: sex and contraception, career and marriage, love and lust, fidelity to one's husband versus loyalty to one's friends and the attempt to carve out a place for oneself unconstrained by the gender limitations of previous generations. 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There was her Catholic grandmother who combined piousness with pugnacity, and her veiled Jewish grandmother who mourned the disastrous effects of a face-lift; there was wicked Uncle Myers who beat her for the good of her soul, and Aunt Margaret who laced her orange juice with castor oil, and taped her lips at night to prevent unhealthy ‘mouth-breathing’. ‘Many a time in the course of doing these memoirs,’ Mary McCarthy says, ‘I have wished that I were writing fiction.’ But these were the people, along with the Ladies of the Sacred Heart convent school, who inspired her engaging perception, her devastating sense of the sublime and ridiculous, and her witty, novelist’s imagination. \u003cem\u003eMemories of a Catholic Girlhood\u003c\/em\u003e is a major work by one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century – witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926248313205,"sku":"9781804271650","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804271650_754ed814-4b72-4fc5-a686-b14b945e4466.jpg?v=1786026652"},{"product_id":"9781844085941","title":"The Company She Keeps","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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308032078197,"sku":"9781844085941","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781844085941_65f99a66-528d-42b1-97b9-c4b77ed97fb9.jpg?v=1786028540"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-mary-mccarthy.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}