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008 020226s2002 nyu 000 0 eng
010 _a 2002002881
020 _a1590170105 (alk. paper)
100 1 _aMcCarthy, Mary,
_d1912-1989.
245 1 2 _aA bolt from the blue and other essays /
_cMary McCarthy ; edited and with an introduction by A.O. Scott.
260 _aNew York :
_bNew York Review Books,
_c2002.
300 _axvii, 389 p. ;
_c22 cm.
505 0 _aIntroduction 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.
650 _aEssays
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700 1 _aScott, A. O.
999 _c1948
_d1948