The Group By Mary McCarthy
Book Excerpt :
Mary McCarthy?s bold and brilliant bestselling novel about the lives of eight upper-middle-class friends?an unabashed look at marriage, motherhood, career, and sexuality for women in interwar AmericaAt Vassar, they were known as ?the group??eight young women of privilege, the closest of friends, an eclectic mix of vibrant personalities. A week after graduation in 1933, they all gather for the wedding of Kay Strong, one of their own, before going their separate ways in the world. In the years that follow, they will each know accomplishment and loss in equal measure, pursuing careers and marriage, experiencing the joys and traumas of sexual awakening and motherhood, all while suffering through betrayals, infidelities, and sometimes madness. Some of them will drift apart. Some will play important roles in the personal dramas of others. But it is tragedy that will ultimately unite the group once again.A novel that stunned the world when it was first published in 1963, Mary McCarthy?s The
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