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Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World

by Carol Brightman · 1992

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This richly detailed biography of America's feisty, free-thinking "first lady of letters" was pronounced by New York Newsday "the best literary biography" in years, "compounded in equal parts of investigative reporting, cultural history, textual criticism, political savvy and delicious gossip." Winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award. Index; photographs.

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adult
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long · 516 pages

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