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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11235266.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "MacDowell -- Minneapolis -- Seattle -- Vassar -- Mrs. Harold Johnsrud -- Partisan Review -- Edmund Wilson -- The Minotaur -- The summer of '45 -- Bard -- Mrs. Bowden Broadwater -- The Oasis -- Newport -- New York -- The Cape -- Venice -- B.B. and J.D. -- Jim West -- Lady of letters -- The Group -- Fame -- Vietnam -- Castine -- Death of old friends -- The Hellman suit -- A full life.".
- catalog extent "845 p., [20] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0393038017".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton & Co.,".
- catalog subject "818/.5209 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.".
- catalog subject "PS3525.A1435 Z69 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "MacDowell -- Minneapolis -- Seattle -- Vassar -- Mrs. Harold Johnsrud -- Partisan Review -- Edmund Wilson -- The Minotaur -- The summer of '45 -- Bard -- Mrs. Bowden Broadwater -- The Oasis -- Newport -- New York -- The Cape -- Venice -- B.B. and J.D. -- Jim West -- Lady of letters -- The Group -- Fame -- Vietnam -- Castine -- Death of old friends -- The Hellman suit -- A full life.".
- catalog title "Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy / Frances Kiernan.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".