by Mary McCarthy · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429740257
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Aparadors per a una dona» is the novel by Mary McCarthy, published by Edicions 62 in hardcover (208 pages, in Catalan).
The novel, set in Seattle, follows a woman from orphaned childhood to maturity, through Vassar College and a career as a newspaper columnist. The narrative addresses female identity, social criticism, women's rights and activism against the Vietnam War.
The book belongs to the Escriptores del Segle XX collection, number 24, translated by Ramon Folch i Camarasa.
For readers seeking coming-of-age novels with a female protagonist and social backdrop.
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, her intimate friendship with her colleague Hannah Arendt and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959. She was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. In 1973, she delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature? The same year she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984. McCarthy held honorary degrees from Bard, Bowdoin, Colby, Smith College, Syracuse University, the University of Maine at Orono, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Hull.
