Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy - Erstausgabe

2000, ISBN: 0393038017

[SC: 23.99], [PU: New York: WWNorton & Co, 2000], Jacket, Kiernan, Frances. Seeing Mary Plain. A Life of Mary McCarthy. New York: WWNorton & Co, 2000, 2d printing, 845pp., very good dust-… Mehr…

[SC: 23.99], [PU: New York: WWNorton & Co, 2000], Jacket, Kiernan, Frances. Seeing Mary Plain. A Life of Mary McCarthy. New York: WWNorton & Co, 2000, 2d printing, 845pp., very good dust-jacket, original price $35.00, very good black and orange hardcover, LAID IN: NYT and Boston Globe newspaper review clippings. Review: "Beautiful, reckless, and endlessly maddening, Mary McCarthy never failed to leave an impression. From her Partisan Review days as the embattled "dark lady of American letters" to her stormy marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, from her huge but controversial success with her best-selling novel The Group to her epic libel battle with Lillian Hellman, she brought an almost nineteenth-century scope and drama to her emblematic twentieth-century life." "Here is a biography that does full justice to one of the most controversial American intellectuals of this century. Frances Kiernan has interviewed dozens of McCarthy's friends, former lovers, literary and political comrades-in-arms, awestruck admirers, amused observers, and bitter adversaries to produce a work rich in ironic judgment, delicious gossip, and eloquent testimony."--Jacket. - ISBN 0393038017. ISBN 9780393038019, Books<

2000

ISBN: 0393038017

[SC: 24.43], [PU: New York: WWNorton & Co, 2000], Jacket, Kiernan, Frances. Seeing Mary Plain. A Life of Mary McCarthy. New York: WWNorton & Co, 2000, 2d printing, 845pp., very good dust-… Mehr…

[SC: 24.43], [PU: New York: WWNorton & Co, 2000], Jacket, Kiernan, Frances. Seeing Mary Plain. A Life of Mary McCarthy. New York: WWNorton & Co, 2000, 2d printing, 845pp., very good dust-jacket, original price $35.00, very good black and orange hardcover, LAID IN: NYT and Boston Globe newspaper review clippings. Review: "Beautiful, reckless, and endlessly maddening, Mary McCarthy never failed to leave an impression. From her Partisan Review days as the embattled "dark lady of American letters" to her stormy marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, from her huge but controversial success with her best-selling novel The Group to her epic libel battle with Lillian Hellman, she brought an almost nineteenth-century scope and drama to her emblematic twentieth-century life." "Here is a biography that does full justice to one of the most controversial American intellectuals of this century. Frances Kiernan has interviewed dozens of McCarthy's friends, former lovers, literary and political comrades-in-arms, awestruck admirers, amused observers, and bitter adversaries to produce a work rich in ironic judgment, delicious gossip, and eloquent testimony."--Jacket. - ISBN 0393038017. ISBN 9780393038019<

1989, ISBN: 9780393038019

Beautiful and reckless, supremely quick and endlessly maddening, Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) never failed to leave an impression. From her Partisan Review days as the embattled "Dark Lady o… Mehr…

Beautiful and reckless, supremely quick and endlessly maddening, Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) never failed to leave an impression. From her Partisan Review days as the embattled "Dark Lady of American letters" to her stormy marriage to (and even stormier divorce from) critic Edmund Wilson to her huge but ambiguous success with her best-selling novel The Group to her epic libel battle with Lillian Hellman, she brought an almost nineteenth-century scope and drama to her emblematic twentieth-century life. Time called her "quite possibly the cleverest woman America has ever produced," and she moved in a circle of the most intellectually combative and sharpest-tongued Americans of this century -- all of whom had plenty to say (some of it complimentary, some distinctly not) about this vibrant woman in their midst. People are still talking, and Fran Kiernan has interviewed dozens of good friends, former lovers, literary and political comrades-in-arms, awestruck admirers, amused observers, and bitter adversaries -- to produce a biography rich in delicious gossip, ironic judgment, and eloquent testimony. Media >, [PU: W. W. Norton]<