Mary McCarthy

American novelist, critic, and essayist best known for the novel The Group (1963) and for her literary criticism and memoirs.

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  1. 1. Il Gruppo

    Eight classmates from an elite women's college move into adulthood together, and the novel follows their intertwined lives over years of marriages, affairs, careers, pregnancies, and personal betrayals; through sharp social observation and dark humor it examines the constraints placed on educated women, the compromises they make between ambition and domesticity, and the complicated loyalties of female friendship as each struggles for independence and meaning in mid-20th-century America.