Birds of America

Mary McCarthy

Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971 - Fiction - 344 pages

In 1964, a young man arrives in France to do his junior year at the Sorbonne. Although he endeavors to live his daily student life according to the laws of harmony and inner consistency, what results is disaster upon disaster and frustrated clashes with the establishment, as he becomes an unwilling witness to the changes in society and its values and to the decline in the quality of life.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 54
• Section 3: 94

About the author

Mary McCarthy was born in Seattle, Washington on June 21, 1912. She studied literature at Vassar College, where she graduated with honors at the age of twenty-one. She worked as an editor at Covici Friede Publishers from 1936-1937 and Partisan Review from 1937-1938. She was a theatre critic for the Partisan Review from 1938-1962. She taught or lectured at Beard College, Sarah Lawrence College, University College in London, and Vassar College. She wrote seven novels including The Company She Keeps, Birds of America, Cannibals and Missionaries, and The Group, which was made into a movie in 1966. She also wrote critical works, travel books and the autobiographical Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood. She received several awards during her lifetime including the Edward MacDowell Medal, the National Medal of Literature, and the first Rochester Literary Award. She died of cancer on October 25, 1989 at the age of 77.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Birds of America
• Author: Mary McCarthy
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 23, 2006
• ISBN: 0151127700, 9780151127702
• Length: 344 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary