The Company She Keeps Author:Mary McCarthy Miss McCarthy has learned the difficult art of settig down everything as it might have not have happened...without even failing, in the midst of a seduction, to mention the safety pin that holds up the heroine's badly mended underwear. The book is brilliantly written, and evokes with a sometimes malicious accuracy of detail the of the life of on... more »e social group...with a focus on the more lurid episodes.« less