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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy (1972, Trade Paperback)

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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Paperback by McCarthy, Mary, ISBN 0156586509, ISBN-13 9780156586504, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Mary McCarthy records those incidents in her childhood that most affected her religious outlook and early development as an artist

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100156586509

ISBN-139780156586504

eBay Product ID (ePID)73819

Product Key Features

Book TitleMemories of a Catholic Girlhood

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Literary, Christian Education / General, Essays

Publication Year1972

IllustratorYes

FeaturesReprint

GenreReligion, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections

AuthorMary Mccarthy

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN57-008842

ReviewsA perhaps misleadingly restrictive title for a folio of some eight autobiographical pieces dealing with Mary McCarthy's past when as the eldest of "poor Roy's children"- her parents died during the influenza epidemic of 1918- she shuttled between two sets of grandparents and three religions- Catholic, Protestant and Jewish. Under the monitory supervision of the Catholic McCarthys in Minneapolis, the four young ones were turned over to a blood relative, Aunt Margaret- a "well-aged quince of 45" whose regimen of prunes and parsnips, no toys or books was supplemented by the capricious brutality of her husband Myers. Removed by "the Protestants", her grandfather Preston and his Jewish wife, to Scattle, there followed a period of quieter discipline in a Catholic convent where she lost her faith; the transfer to an Episcopalian boarding school and infractions of another nature; a summer in Montana and her introduction to whisky under the tutelage of a married druggist; and the pieces conclude with an unforgettable portrait of her grandmother Augusta Morgenstern and the elaborate ritual of her days.... Time has not dulled the sharpness of the image and incident here, and the portraiture has an exceptional definition to which the polished prose- there is never a flubbed phrase- is certainly contributory. There is also a warmth, and an often gamine charm, absent from her fiction, which may attract others beyond her anticipated audience (although Catholic readers have already been aroused on the initial publication of these pieces.)

Dewey Decimal818.5

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisThis unique autobiography begins with McCarthy's recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need to fictionalize for the sake of a good story with the need for honesty, she creates interchapters that tell the reader what she has inferred or invented. Photographs.

LC Classification NumberPS3525.A1435 Z55