by Mary McCarthy · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483102787
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«El grupo» is the literary novel by Mary McCarthy, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (440 pages, in Spanish).
Eight Vassar graduates in 1933 begin their adult lives in a society that does not yet accept the changes they represent. The choral novel interweaves these women's stories with work, love, contraception, marriage, motherhood, and sexual and political choices: women whose education was not mere personal ornament.
Andanzas collection, number 548; 2nd edition. Finalist for the National Book Award in 1964.
For book clubs and readers of literary fiction interested in female emancipation and the 1930s in the United States.
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.
