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PUBLISHED
©2017
DESCRIPTION
1072 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
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Library of America #291
NOTES
In "The Group" McCarthy weaves together the lives of eight Vassar College graduates during the 1930s as they grapple with sex, sexism, money, motherhood, and family. In "Birds of America" nineteen-year-old Peter Levi travels to Europe as the conflict in Vietnam escalates where he discovers the limits of philosophy in a time of social unrest. "Cannibals and Missionaries", a thriller about an airline hijacking, delves into the psychology of terrorism and the value of art. Also included, the 1970 essay, "The novels that got away", a look at the author's unfinished fiction