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The Group by Mary McCarthy5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It makes me believe in intelligent Americans in a way that Sex and the City doesn't. All of these make it totally outrageous but dreadfully refreshing.(How many books do this?) And not missing are McCarthy's wit and humour. This book is so eloquent and dry and upfront and honest. I have read it three times (2007 was the last time) and seen the movie several times, a very faithful rendition. My Student Director immediately confiscated it, so I knew its reputation was still going strong.(He didn't see my two volumes of Nietzsche I'd also bought with money my Mum had given me for my 20th birthday - I'd only bought them because I'd already seen him confiscate a Nietzsche on the grounds that it could destroy one's faith and I was already seeing large holes in the Church's fabric myself!!) I mentioned what had happened to my History tutor, a Russian woman, at Adelaide University(South Australia) and she gave me her copy of McCarthy which I still have. I was determined to read it and finally got hold of it in 1967 when I was studying to be a Catholic priest. I can remember my Dad's married sisters discussing this book (they were voracious readers always) in the 1960's. ![]()
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