The Group
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
What happens when the gilded promise of a Vassar education collides with the messy, unforgiving realities of adult life? The Group by Mary McCarthy chronicles the intertwined lives of eight young women from the Vassar class of 1933, tracking their diverging paths through love, marriage, career, and disillusionment across the turbulent years leading up to World War II. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing America — politically charged, socially restless, and sexually awakening — the novel presents an unflinching portrait of a generation of women caught between the progressive ideals instilled in them at college and the suffocating conventions of the world that awaits them outside its gates. McCarthy writes with razor-sharp wit and sociological precision, dissecting the hypocrisies of class, gender, and ambition with the cool authority of a surgeon. The Group is widely regarded as a landmark of American feminist literature, anticipating the cultural upheavals of the 1960s with startling prescience, and its frank treatment of sexuality, contraception, and female autonomy caused considerable controversy upon its publication in 1963. McCarthy's prose is at once satirical and deeply empathetic, lending each character a vivid, fully-realised inner life that lingers long after the final page — leaving the reader to wonder which of these women's fates, ultimately, could have been their own.
Author: Mary Mccarthy
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
What happens when the gilded promise of a Vassar education collides with the messy, unforgiving realities of adult life? The Group by Mary McCarthy chronicles the intertwined lives of eight young women from the Vassar class of 1933, tracking their diverging paths through love, marriage, career, and disillusionment across the turbulent years leading up to World War II. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing America — politically charged, socially restless, and sexually awakening — the novel presents an unflinching portrait of a generation of women caught between the progressive ideals instilled in them at college and the suffocating conventions of the world that awaits them outside its gates. McCarthy writes with razor-sharp wit and sociological precision, dissecting the hypocrisies of class, gender, and ambition with the cool authority of a surgeon. The Group is widely regarded as a landmark of American feminist literature, anticipating the cultural upheavals of the 1960s with startling prescience, and its frank treatment of sexuality, contraception, and female autonomy caused considerable controversy upon its publication in 1963. McCarthy's prose is at once satirical and deeply empathetic, lending each character a vivid, fully-realised inner life that lingers long after the final page — leaving the reader to wonder which of these women's fates, ultimately, could have been their own.