| How I Grew Contributor(s): McCarthy, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765807750 ISBN-13: 9780765807755 Publisher: Transaction Publishers OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: Mary McCarthy focuses this memoir on eight formative, compelling years of her life, from age thirteen to twenty-one, from high school through college. In candid, often intimate detail, with clarity and grace, she reveals herself in adolescence, exposing a girl at turns vulnerable, independent, dramatic, lonely, inquisitive, romantic, demonstrably bright, and uncommonly daring. Action portraits of family, friends, classmates, and teachers; recollections of amateur theatricals, the snobberies of students, early attempts at writing, a melodramatic flirtation with suicide are among the abundantly varied contents. How I Grew is a remarkable personal chronicle, individual and distinctly American. Forceful, unsparingly honest, and devoid of sentimentality, it deals with disasters and triumphs. Mary McCarthy at her superlative best has produced an utterly convincing, unsentimental self-portrait and a superb addition to the art of autobiography. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00026118 |
| Series: Transaction Large Print |
| Physical Information: 315 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |