Books by Mary McCarthy and Complete Book Reviews
Mary McCarthy, Author . Greenwillow $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-124073-7
With a visual guessing game as the premise, McCarthy's first book for children challenges youngsters to look at nature through the lens of graphic design. “Look!” she writes, introducing a series of three seemingly abstract images. &
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Mary McCarthy, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-142193-0
In this autobiographical account of McCarthy's intellectual and emotional development, we meet her as a lonely, frightened 13-year-old and leave her as a sophisticated Vassar graduate, foolishly married at age 21 to a man she doesn't love. This...
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Mary McCarthy, Author, Elizabeth Hardwick, Introduction by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15.95 (114p) ISBN 978-0-15-144820-3
By the end of the first paragraph of this brief companion to her memoir How I Grew , McCarthy (1912-1989) has made clear the centers of her young life: love and work. At a May Day parade in New York City, she is a 24-year-old Communist and married...
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