A Charmed Life Author:Mary McCarthy New Leeds -- boasted 3 village idiots, 21 town drunks, and 2 ex-wives for the average resident. Its 18th century houses and its artistic citizens were run down, warped, mildewed... — Never has bohemian decadence been so sharply ans so skillfully portrayed as in this novel by the incomparable Mary McCarthy. A Chamed Life is the story of a young ... more »woman who returns to a New England seacoast town and plays a dangerous game as she invites a former husband to invad her second marriage.... by the author of The Group.« less