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.

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The Groves of Academe is considered to be one of the first English-language academic novels.

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A roman à clé about a marriage coming apart on the “seacoast of Bohemia.”

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The Group follows seven friends from their Vassar graduation in 1933 to the months before Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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A British edition with an introduction by Candace Bushnell.

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A coming-of-age novel recently republished with an introduction by Penelope Lively.

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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.

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