3 Novels by Mary McCarthy
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Overview: Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American author, critic and political activist. Her debut novel, The Company She Keeps, received critical acclaim as a succès de scandale, depicting the social milieu of New York intellectuals of the late 1930s with unreserved frankness. After building a reputation as a satirist and critic, McCarthy enjoyed popular success when her 1963 novel The Group remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for almost two years. Her work is noted for its precise prose and its complex mixture of autobiography and fiction.
Genre: Fiction » General Fiction/Classics
1.Cannibals And Missionaries
A riveting and unconventional thriller about a motley group of airplane passengers taken hostage by militant hijackers. En route to Iran, a plane is captured by Middle Eastern terrorists intent on holding hostage the committee of politicians, religious leaders, and activists on a mission to investigate alleged human rights violations by the shah. But the kidnappers soon discover that there is a greater treasure onboard. Among the passengers are prominent art collectors with access to some of the world’s most valuable paintings—priceless works that could fund global terrorist activities for decades. After the captured plane sets down in a remote Dutch farming collective by the sea, events go rapidly and frighteningly awry. As negotiations with government agencies stall, concerns over rare artwork threaten to trump the regard for human life, and both captors and captives will face bitter truths about their conflicting values, manners, and ideologies as the ticking clock races inexorably toward an explosive endgame. Mary McCarthy’s masterful Cannibals and Missionaries is a remarkable novel of events and ideas that sheds light on the tragic foibles of human nature while exploring the terrorist psychology with supreme intelligence and insight.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author’s estate.
2.Cast A Cold Eye
Seven extraordinary stories from bestselling author Mary McCarthy that carry readers from the heartbreaking core of a broken family to the tourist sites of Italy and into the contemplative mind of a potential murderess. Best known for her acclaimed and provocative novels, including The Group and Cannibals and Missionaries, author Mary McCarthy also won praise for her brilliant short fiction. Cast a Cold Eye offers readers seven unforgettable tales from the pen of a true American literary master. A deft satirist with an unflinching eye, McCarthy dissects social mores and challenges cultural taboos, whether she’s exploring the tragic disappearance of love or discovering the staggering price of a friendship.These stories run the gamut from pure invention to striking autobiographical pieces, powerful remembrances from the author’s past. A hospitalized graduate student turns the sounds of pain and despair into music. A family is tragically taken apart and reformed by a deadly outbreak of influenza. Two American tourists find themselves seriously befuddled by their unorthodox Italian guide. With Cast a Cold Eye, Mary McCarthy confirms her standing as a storyteller of power and imagination, shattering social pretense, mining the rich territory of memory, and grandly displaying the insight and rapier wit for which she is known.
3. A Charmed Life
The life of a writer is flipped upside down when she reconnects with her roots—and her remarried ex-husband—in this witty autobiographical novel by bestselling author Mary McCarthy. Former actress and budding playwright Martha Sinnott longs to return to the New Leeds artists’ colony and the “charmed life” she abandoned when she divorced her first husband. Now remarried, she has come back to the New England artistic “utopia” with her current spouse to find that little has changed. The same people still make up this tightly knit society, and her former husband has taken up new residence, with his new wife, dangerously close by. But her eagerly anticipated homecoming includes many rude awakenings in the company of the unhappy and often resentful artistic also-rans and never-weres she once counted among her closest friends. And in this pervasive atmosphere of falsehoods and self-delusions, the biggest lie of all is Martha’s belief that she can reconnect with Miles, her ex, without it wreaking terrible havoc on her life and her future.
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