A McCarthy, Mary 1912-1989 creator Scott, A. O. text nyu New York New York Review Books 2002 monographic eng

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xvii, 389 p. ; 22 cm. Introduction to theater chronicles -- Class angles and a Wilder classic -- Shaw and Chekhov -- Eugene O'Neill: dry ice -- A streetcar called success -- A new word -- The American realist playwrights -- Elizabethan revivals -- A bolt from the blue -- Burroughs's Naked lunch -- J.D. Salinger's closed circuit -- On Madame Bovary -- Hanging by a thread -- On rereading a favorite book -- Acts of love -- The fact in fiction -- Ideas and the novel: lecture I -- America the beautiful: the humanist in the bathtub -- Mlle. Gulliver en am�erique -- My confession -- Up the ladder from Charm to Vogue -- Letter from Portugal -- The home program -- Philip Rahv (1908-1973) -- F.W. Dupee (1904-1979) -- The very unforgettable Miss Brayton -- Notes of a resident of the Watergate -- The moral certainties of John D. Ehrlichman. Mary McCarthy ; edited and with an introduction by A.O. Scott. Essays 1590170105 (alk. paper) 2002002881 020226 20181127165124.0 2437