Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World (Harvest Book) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World (Harvest Book) Book

Brightman's massive biography of Mary McCarthy passionately and responsibly chronicles the many incarnations of "the first lady of letters." There's a lot to tell: McCarthy married four times, entertained many lovers, co-founded the Partisan Review, opposed World War II and penned 16 novels, several memoirs and hundreds of letters, articles, essays and reviews during her 79 years. Brightman richly details McCarthy's ascension from a battered foster child to a celebrated member of the New York literary and intellectual elite. For McCarthy, Brightman writes, language was "an instrument of conquest ... a medium for the refinement of perception." Writing Dangerously won a 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award. Read More

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  • Product Description

    Winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, this sparklingly written, exhaustively researched, and richly detailed biography of America's feisty, free-thinking "first lady of letters" is an engrossing portrait of the American Left from the 1930s through the 1980s. 32 pages of b&w photographs.

  • 0156000679
  • 9780156000673
  • Carol Brightman
  • 1 July 1994
  • Harvest/HBJ Book
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 516
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