When she was six, Mary McCarthy travelled from Seattle to Minneapolis. Within days of arrival her mother and father had died from a flu and Mary started a deprived childhood in the house of her aunt and uncle. This autobiography is an account of her early years and first unsuccessful marriage.
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When she was six, Mary McCarthy travelled from Seattle to Minneapolis. Within days of arrival her mother and father had died from a flu and Mary started a deprived childhood in the house of her aunt and uncle. This autobiography is an account of her early years and first unsuccessful marriage.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. One of the great authors of the 20th century, Mary McCarthy traces her girlhood in Seattle during the mid-1920s to her graduation from Vassar and subsequent ill-matched marriage during the depression, in New York; her sheltered upbring, her lasting friendships and hates--but also a chronicle of the growth of intellect. 16 Photographic illustrative plates. Includes a Brief Biographical Glossary of Lesser-Known Figures by Carol Brightman. Bound in blue cloth gilt titled, clean and unmarked, upper edge sunned, trace wear to some corners. Sewn binding is tight and solid. square. Internals are clean and unmarked, pages toned. Fine jacket is not price-clipped. 278 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, England, 1987.