Cast a Cold Eye
Mary McCarthy
Disponibilité:
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.
Éditeur:
Open Road Media
Open Road Media
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2013
2013
ISBN-13:
9781480438323
Description:
<DIV><B>Seven “remarkable” stories from the bestselling author of <I>The Group</I> (<I>The New York Times</I>).</B><BR /> ?<BR /> Two American tourists find themselves seriously befuddled by their unorthodox Italian guide. ?A hospitalized graduate student turns the sounds of pain and despair into music. A family is tragically taken apart, and then reformed, by a deadly outbreak of influenza. The short fiction in this collection, some of it autobiographical in inspiration, reflects both the adept, witty storytelling and the insightful social commentary of <I>New York Times</I>–bestselling author Mary McCarthy.<BR /><BR /> A National Book Award finalist known for such novels as <I>Birds in America</I> and <I>The Groves of Academe</I>—as well as memoir (<I>Memories of a Catholic Girlhood</I>) and travel writing (<I>Venice Observed</I>)—McCarthy shows in <I>Cast a Cold Eye</I> why she has been called “a brilliant writer with a rare talent for corrosive satire” (<I>The Atlantic Monthly</I>).<BR />  <DIV><I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author’s estate.</I></DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV>