{"product_id":"seeing-mary-plain-a-life-of-mary-mccarthy","title":"Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSeeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eFrances Kiernan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393038019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW W Norton \u0026amp; Co Inc\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eBeautiful and reckless, supremely quick and endlessly maddening, Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) never failed to leave an impression. From her Partisan Review days as the embattled \"Dark Lady of American letters\" to her stormy marriage to (and even stormier divorce from) critic Edmund Wilson to her huge but ambiguous success with her best-selling novel The Group to her epic libel battle with Lillian Hellman, she brought an almost nineteenth-century scope and drama to her emblematic twentieth-century life. Time called her \"quite possibly the cleverest woman America has ever produced,\" and she moved in a circle of the most intellectually combative and sharpest-tongued Americans of this century -- all of whom had plenty to say (some of it complimentary, some distinctly not) about this vibrant woman in their midst. People are still talking, and Fran Kiernan has interviewed dozens of good friends, former lovers, literary and political comrades-in-arms, awestruck admirers, amused observers, and bitter adversaries -- to produce a biography rich in delicious gossip, ironic judgment, and eloquent testimony.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W W Norton \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy | Frances Kiernan | Hardcover | 9780393038019 | Used: Like New | Biography 1654856","offer_id":48697380208792,"sku":"1654856","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81OEIOGBmOL.jpg?v=1773767843","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/seeing-mary-plain-a-life-of-mary-mccarthy","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}