by Mary McCarthy · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417553913
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The Group is the best-known and most controversial work by American writer Mary McCarthy. Published in 1963, this novel addresses topics such as free love, contraception, and abortion from a female perspective. The plot follows the lives of nine university graduates from Vassar College in 1930s New York, from one of their weddings to her funeral in 1940. These independent and free women face society's expectations, which push them towards marriage and motherhood. A portrait of the United States at a time when women were beginning to raise their voices.
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, her intimate friendship with her colleague Hannah Arendt and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959. She was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. In 1973, she delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature? The same year she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984. McCarthy held honorary degrees from Bard, Bowdoin, Colby, Smith College, Syracuse University, the University of Maine at Orono, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Hull.
