Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by McCarthy, Mary ISBN 1590170105
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This is a collection of some of the best literary, social and political essays by Mary McCarthy, one of the leading American writers of the 20th century.
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was one of the leading literary figures of her time. In addition to the novels and memoirs for which she is best remembered, she was also a tireless literary and social critic. Starting out as a theatre reviewer for Partisan Review in 1937, she quickly distinguished herself for witty and fearless commentary on topics ranging from McCarthyism to the French New Novel to women's fashion magazines. McCarthy was an eager controversialist, unsparing in her dissection of anything she found phony or hypocritical. Her reviews are sharp, sometimes malicious, and often very funny, but her criticism is also informed by deep erudition and enlivened by an inexhaustible capacity for enthusiasm. Her political writings, critical in equal measure of the Cold War consensus and of its critics, are less concerned with finding correct positions than with exploring the often absurd circumstances in which agonising moral decisions are made. The intellectual brio and acute judgement that characterises her best fiction is vividly displayed in this selection of essays, which span McCarthy's career from the late 1930s to the late 1970s. It includes her writings on topics such as fashion magazines, Eugene O'Neill, A Streetcar Named Desire, Look Back in Anger, Pale Fire, J.D. Sallnger, Madame Bovary, Italo Calvino, Vietnam, and Watergate. The volume constitutes not only a valuable record of the ideological and cultural controversies that dominated American intellectual life from the Moscow trials to the Watergate hearings, but will also introduce a new generation of readers to a uniquely forthright and vibrant critical voice.
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[edit] Title
Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
[edit] Author
McCarthy, Mary
[edit] ISBN
1590170105
[edit] Published
15/07/2002
[edit] Publisher
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
[edit] Binding
HARDBACK
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16.99 (GBP)
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