{"product_id":"9781598535167","title":"Mary McCarthy: Novels \u0026 Stories 1942-1963 (Loa #290): The Company She Keeps \/ The Oasis \/ The Groves of Academe \/ A Charmed Life \/ Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, four novels and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eeight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003egeneration.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel,\u003ci\u003e The Company She Keeps \u003c\/i\u003e(1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature—\"mutual plagiarism,\" she called it—became the hallmark of McCarthy's fiction, which the Library of America now presents in full for the first time in deluxe collector's edition. \u003ci\u003eThe Oasis\u003c\/i\u003e (1949), a wicked satire about a failed utopian community, and \u003ci\u003eThe Groves of Academe\u003c\/i\u003e (1952), a pioneering campus novel depicting the insular and often absurd world of academia, burnished her reputation as an acerbic truth-teller, but it was with \u003ci\u003eA Charmed Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), a searing story of small-town infidelity, that McCarthy fully embraced the frank and avant-garde treatment of gender and sexuality that would inspire generations of readers and writers. Also included are all eight of McCarthy's short stories, four from her collection \u003ci\u003eCast a Cold Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1950), and four collected here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050207985904,"sku":"9781598535167","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598535167_p0.jpg?v=1763824910","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598535167","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}