by Mary McCarthy · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483103623
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Birds of America is a novel by American writer Mary McCarthy, published in 1971. The story follows Peter Levi, an idealistic young man who faces the complexities of adult life and the contradictions of American society in the 1960s. Through his experiences at university and his travels through Europe, Peter seeks meaning in his existence and questions the values of his environment. The novel explores themes such as identity, morality, and alienation in a constantly changing world.
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.
