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Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World Reprint Edition
Author(s): Carol Brightman (Author)
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Publication Date: 1 July 1994
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0156000679
- ISBN-13: 9780156000673
Book Description
Drawing on a series of interviews with McCarthy, as well as a collection of her letters and papers, this biography provides new insights into the life and innovative work of one of America's premier authors
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Amazon Review
Brightman's massive biography of Mary McCarthy passionately and responsibly chronicles the many incarnations of "the first lady of letters." There's a lot to tell: McCarthy married four times, entertained many lovers, co-founded the Partisan Review, opposed World War II and penned 16 novels, several memoirs and hundreds of letters, articles, essays and reviews during her 79 years. Brightman richly details McCarthy's ascension from a battered foster child to a celebrated member of the New York literary and intellectual elite. For McCarthy, Brightman writes, language was "an instrument of conquest ... a medium for the refinement of perception." Writing Dangerously won a 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award.
