Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
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Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to
the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as
colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There
was her Catholic grandmother who combined piousness with pugnacity,
and her veiled Jewish grandmother who mourned the disastrous
effects of a face-lift, there was wicked Uncle Myers who beat her
for the good of her soul, and Aunt Margaret who laced her orange
juice with castor oil, and taped her lips at night to prevent
unhealthy ‘mouth-breathing’. ‘Many a time in the course of doing
these memoirs,’ Mary McCarthy says, ‘I have wished that I were
writing fiction.’ But these were the people, along with the Ladies
of the Sacred Heart convent school, who inspired her engaging
perception, her devastating sense of the sublime and ridiculous,
and her witty, novelist’s imagination.Memories of a Catholic
Girlhood is a major work by one of the leading American
intellectuals of the twentieth century – witty, scathing,
piercingly insightful and stylishly written.
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Fitzcarraldo Editions ,
Mary McCarthy
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Fitzcarraldo Editions,
Mary McCarthy
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Slovart
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