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Mary McCarthy - Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Av Mary McCarthy

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Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. 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. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood is a major work by one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century – witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-03-13
  • Mått: 121 x 197 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 266 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 264
  • Förlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • ISBN: 9781804271650
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Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) was a novelist, essayist and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays and theatre criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, the New Yorker, Harper’s and the New York Review of Books. She was the author of numerous novels, including The Group (1963), three works of autobiography and two travel books about Italy.

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‘It could be argued that [McCarthy’s] finest book is Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, first published in 1957 and now reissued in a handsome paperback by Fitzcarraldo Editions.... Colm Tóibín, in his sympathetic and subtle introduction, notes the similarities between Mary McCarthy and the poet Elizabeth Bishop, both of whom grew up parentless, and used their orphanhood as literary material. Yet the biographies of both women bespeak an incurable sadness and a sense of damage, however bravely borne. McCarthy was the sprightlier and more feisty of the two, and in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood she made a small, or perhaps more than small, masterpiece.’— John Banville, Observer

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