Fiction
Of McCarthy’s first book, George Plimpton recalled that it burst on society with “almost as much an impression as Pearl Harbor.”
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McCarthy’s satirical novella of a utopian community presented with an engaging introduction by Vivian Gornick.
The Groves of Academe is considered to be one of the first English-language academic novels.
A roman à clé about a marriage coming apart on the “seacoast of Bohemia.”
The Group follows seven friends from their Vassar graduation in 1933 to the months before Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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A coming-of-age novel recently republished with an introduction by Penelope Lively.
McCarthy’s final novel, about the hijacking of an Air France flight to Iran, portrays terrorists who discover that the value of art may outweigh that of human life.