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The Group
Mary McCarthy. Harvest Books: 1991 (paperback). ISBN: 0156372088. 487 pages.
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Could this classic story of eight Vassar grads, class of '33, be the ultimate
book group book? Well, it's certainly one of the most insightful, wickedly funny, embarrassingly accurate renditions of the
group-life of women that has ever been written. As our eight heroines leave the shelter of the university to explore new
worlds their mothers didn't dream of, they never, of course, leave the shelter of class or privilege. These are the women
of our mothers' or grandmothers' time, but as we read about their expectations, their ideals, their debates over the nature
of womanhood in a brand new era, it's truly unnerving to see how little, in some ways, things have changed. McCarthy's
ability to make you care about these women, even while you're laughing at their naivete and sense of entitlement, makes
The Group an endlessly fascinating classic.
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