Memories of a Catholic GirlhoodThis unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need to fictionalize for the sake of a good story with the need for honesty, she creates interchapters that tell the reader what she has inferred or invented. Photographs. |
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User Review - cindywho - LibraryThingI got suckered into reading another memoir, this time of a distant relative. It's a set of pieces that McCarthy had published mostly in the New Yorker with commentary in between about what was ... Read full review
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User Review - thesmellofbooks - LibraryThingAn excellent collection of memoirs, though I would not want to have a relative take her razor-sharp pen thus to my character and ways. That said, the writing is not remorseless and cruel, but ... Read full review
Contents
To the Reader | 3 |
Vonder Peasant Who Is He? | 29 |
A Tin Butterfly | 54 |
The Blackguard | 87 |
Cest le Premier Pas Qui Coûte | 102 |
Names | 127 |
The Figures in the Clock | 141 |
Vellowstone Park | 169 |
Ask Me No Questions | 195 |
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| Title | Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Volume 231 of A harvest/HBJ book Tom Keneally Centre Research Collection |
| Author | Mary McCarthy |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1957 |
| ISBN | 0156586509, 9780156586504 |
| Length | 245 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Biography & Autobiography / Women |
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