The Group
Mary McCarthy, 1963
Eight Vassar friends graduate into 1930s New York and discover what their fine educations are actually for — careers, marriages, psychoanalysis, politics, and each other.
Mary McCarthy
McCarthy was orphaned at six and raised by a strict Catholic great-aunt, a childhood she later dissected in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, to her family's horror.
Feels like friendship, ambition and nostalgia.
The year before the future arrived.
He would only come if she were unprepared. Or would he come only if she were prepared? With her lamp trimmed like the wise virgins? Christianity would tell her to buy food for two, but the pagans would say, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Books by Mary McCarthy
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