New Releases by Mary McCarthy

Ambientada en el crculo sofisticado y snob de la bohemia literaria y artstica de la Nueva Inglaterra de los aos cincuenta, Una vida encantada gira en torno a Martha Sinnot, una joven casada en segundas nupcias. En su primer matrimonio, y a pesara de su carcter independienete y libre de perjuicio, Martha se vio unida a un hombre muyo mayor que ella al que se entreg sin ilusin ni amor.

This book provides a coherent, comprehensive introduction to urban geography. It offers a historical and process-oriented approach with a North American focus that also provides a global context and comparative international perspective. From a global perspective, the authors examine urban trends and their outcomes in both the developed and the less developed countries in order to understand, analyze, and interpret the landscapes, economies, and communities of towns and cities around the world.

"Mary McCarthy may be best remembered today for her novels and memoirs, but she was also a dazzling and prolific essayist and critic, known for her witty and fearless commentary on topics ranging from American realist playwrights to women''s fashion magazines, from left-wing politics to the nineteenth-century novel." "This collection, which spans her career from the 1930s to the 1970s, displays McCarthy''s acute judgment and stylistic brio. It begins with a generous selection of her drama reviews, and includes essays on Nabokov, Burroughs, Salinger, Flaubert, Calvino, Sarraute, and Tolstoy. In the essays that follow, she dissects the social and political controversies that dominated midcentury American intellectual life, from the Moscow trials to the Vietnam War and the Watergate hearings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy.

During the Watergate hearings, Mary McCarthy, on commission from The Observer of London, wrote six reports from Washington telling the amazing story of deceit and arrogance in the Nixon administration. She wrote two others for The New York Review of Books, including one that summarizes her view of this terrible American travesty. The reports have been greatly revised and amplified for this book. Here the reader is once again reminded, by sharply drawn portraits, of the characters of Watergate. Here is "sloping-headed, slope-shouldered" Mitchell, who "brought evil into the Caucus Room, and this was not unconnected with the boredom he was able to generate." And "the Keystone comedy cop Tony Ulasewicz"; and Senator Baker, whose "insistent questions about motive suggest that he is playing a TV role of spiritual surgeon and counselor." Maureen ("Mo") Dean appears on the sidelines "in a daily change of costume (sometimes color-harmonizing with her husband)," looking like "a bride who would want fresh jewelry for her honeymoon." Mary McCarthy''s skills as a reporter, her capacity for conveying moral insights, and her great personal style make this book a singular account of an unforgettable--and almost unbearable--time in the history of the republic.--Jacket.

Writer Mary McCarthy''s report on the court-martial and acquittal of Captain Ernest L. Medina, U.S. Army, for his actions as commander of the troops involved in the notorious massacre at My Lai.

The electrifying portrait of an idealistic young man who is an unwilling witness to the changes in society and its values. Here is a book that captures the very essence of the 1960s and is at the same time as fresh today as when it was first published in 1965.

A penetrating work of reportage on Venice. "Searching observations and astonishing comprehension of the Venetian taste and character" (New York Herald Tribune).

"This volume brings together Miss McCarthy''s lively controversial essays on the theatre from the 1930''s up to the present day. The intelligence and vitality of the author''s analysis brings past productions of Shakespeare, Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, Odets, Saroyan, Wilder back to the reader with unique immediacy and freshness. In the modern period, Miss McCarthy discusses the work of Miller, Williams, Graham Greene, William Inge, Paddy Chayevsky, O''Neill and John Osborne. The first quarter of this volume originally appeared in Miss McCarthy''s much celebrated column in Partisan Review, where, from the outset, the author''s uncompromising critical attitude won her an ardent group of followers. From that point on, Mary McCarthy has held a distinguished position as a theatre critic, although the author herself would rather not be classified as much. Unlike many modern critics, sha has the ability to discuss the theatre as a branch of intellectual and social history. For her, the play is an event, which she views with the same ruthless honesty with which she looks at art, politics, literature and life."- Publisher