The Resource Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy, Frances Kiernan
Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy, Frances Kiernan
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The item Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy, Frances Kiernan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Beautiful, reckless, and endlessly maddening, Mary McCarthy never failed to leave an impression. From her Partisan Review days as the embattled "dark lady of American letters" to her stormy marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, from her huge but controversial success with her best-selling novel The Group to her epic libel battle with Lillian Hellman, she brought an almost nineteenth-century scope and drama to her emblematic twentieth-century life." "Here is a biography that does full justice to one of the most controversial American intellectuals of this century. Frances Kiernan has interviewed dozens of McCarthy's friends, former lovers, literary and political comrades-in-arms, awestruck admirers, amused observers, and bitter adversaries to produce a work rich in ironic judgment, delicious gossip, and eloquent testimony."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 845 p.
- Contents
-
- MacDowell
- Minneapolis
- Seattle
- Vassar
- Mrs. Harold Johnsrud
- Partisan Review
- Edmund Wilson
- The Minotaur
- The summer of '45
- Bard
- Mrs. Bowden Broadwater
- The Oasis
- Newport
- New York
- The Cape
- Venice
- B.B. and J.D.
- Jim West
- Lady of letters
- The Group
- Fame
- Vietnam
- Castine
- Death of old friends
- The Hellman suit
- A full life
- Isbn
- 9780393038019
- Label
- Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy
- Title
- Seeing Mary plain
- Title remainder
- a life of Mary McCarthy
- Statement of responsibility
- Frances Kiernan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Beautiful, reckless, and endlessly maddening, Mary McCarthy never failed to leave an impression. From her Partisan Review days as the embattled "dark lady of American letters" to her stormy marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, from her huge but controversial success with her best-selling novel The Group to her epic libel battle with Lillian Hellman, she brought an almost nineteenth-century scope and drama to her emblematic twentieth-century life." "Here is a biography that does full justice to one of the most controversial American intellectuals of this century. Frances Kiernan has interviewed dozens of McCarthy's friends, former lovers, literary and political comrades-in-arms, awestruck admirers, amused observers, and bitter adversaries to produce a work rich in ironic judgment, delicious gossip, and eloquent testimony."--Jacket
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kiernan, Frances
- Dewey number
-
- 818/.5209
- B
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3525.A1435
- LC item number
- Z69 2000
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- McCarthy, Mary
- Women authors, American
- Authors, American
- Label
- Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy, Frances Kiernan
- Bar code
-
- 31223052643187
- 31223052643146
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- MacDowell -- Minneapolis -- Seattle -- Vassar -- Mrs. Harold Johnsrud -- Partisan Review -- Edmund Wilson -- The Minotaur -- The summer of '45 -- Bard -- Mrs. Bowden Broadwater -- The Oasis -- Newport -- New York -- The Cape -- Venice -- B.B. and J.D. -- Jim West -- Lady of letters -- The Group -- Fame -- Vietnam -- Castine -- Death of old friends -- The Hellman suit -- A full life
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 845 p.
- Isbn
- 9780393038019
- Lccn
- 99041098
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- 42291448
- Label
- Seeing Mary plain : a life of Mary McCarthy, Frances Kiernan
- Bar code
-
- 31223052643187
- 31223052643146
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- MacDowell -- Minneapolis -- Seattle -- Vassar -- Mrs. Harold Johnsrud -- Partisan Review -- Edmund Wilson -- The Minotaur -- The summer of '45 -- Bard -- Mrs. Bowden Broadwater -- The Oasis -- Newport -- New York -- The Cape -- Venice -- B.B. and J.D. -- Jim West -- Lady of letters -- The Group -- Fame -- Vietnam -- Castine -- Death of old friends -- The Hellman suit -- A full life
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 845 p.
- Isbn
- 9780393038019
- Lccn
- 99041098
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- 42291448
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