- Fiction, Women college graduates, Women, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
THE GROUP follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan. THE GROUP can be seen as the original SEX AND THE CITY. It is the first novel to frankly portray women's real lives, exploring subjects such as sex, contraception, motherhood and marriage.
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Classical in form, spare, character-led and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Mary McCarthy
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 397
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., Buccaneer Books, New American Library
- Editions
- 53
- Language
- French, und, English
- ISBN
- 9780151372812
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“It was June, 1933, one week after Commencement, when Kay Leiland Strong, Vassar '33, the first of her class to run around the table at the Class Day dinner, was married to Harald Petersen, Reed '27, in the chapel of St. George's Church, P.E., Karl F. Reiland, Rector.”
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American author, critic and political activist.
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