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The Group
The Group
Author: Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy's most celebrated novel portrays the lives, and aspirations of eight Vassar graduates. "The group" meet in New York following commencement to attend the wedding of one of their members and reconvene seven years later at her funeral. The woman are complicated, compelling, vivid, and, above all, determined not to become stuffy and fr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780151372812
ISBN-10: 0151372810
Publication Date: 11/1989
Pages: 487
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4.3 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 6
A story of "the group" of Vassar College grads of the class of 1933, this book offers an interesting commentary of the social and sexual mores of the era in American history between the Depression and the beginning of WWII. I'm sure this book was considered to be quite risque in its day (Copyright 1954!). It took me about 100 pages to really become absorbed in the story, but once I did, I couldn't put it down. An interesting read! I understand that the movie is good, also.
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Eight young women from the class of 1933 have graduated from Vassar and are beginning to learn about life. They choose or are offered marriage, a career or an emancipated life, one of sexual or social freedom. In their discoveries and development they mirror the growing up of provincial America.


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