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Mary McCarthy • 185 Items / 27 Books, 100 Articles, 58 Reviews
A Charmed Life (1955)
by Mary McCarthy
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Published Reviews
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    New Faces and New Leeds (Review)
    James Kelly
    A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy
    1. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    The Saturday Review, November 5, 1955, p. 17
  2. [+]
    The Cat and the Mice (Review)
    Marya Mannes
    A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy
    1. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    The Reporter, December 15, 1955, pp. 40-41
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    Puppets in the High Bohemia (Review)
    Cashenden Cass
    A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy
    1. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    The New Republic, December 5, 1955, p. 18
  4. Books in Review
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    Heavy Artillery (Review)
    John Chamberlain
    A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy
    1. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    National Review, December 21, 1955, p. 27
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    Who Is Martha? (Review)
    Josephine Herbst
    A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy
    1. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    The Nation, November 26, 1955, p. 463
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    Diamond-Hard (Review)
    Jean Holzhauer
    A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy
    1. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    Commonweal, November 18, 1955, p. 171
  7. Books
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    Lack of Confidence (3 Reviews)
    Hilary Corke
    The Shock of Recognition, by Edmund Wilson
    1. The Shock of Recognition by Edmund Wilson
    2. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    3. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
    Encounter, July 1956, pp. 75-77
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews)
    Charles J. Rolo
    Reader's Choice
    1. The Edge of the Sea by Rachel L. Carson
    2. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea by Edmund Wilson
    3. The Jewish Sect of Qumran and the Essenes by Andre Dupont-Sommer
    4. The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows
    5. Cards of Identity by Nigel Forbes Dennis
    6. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    7. Cash McCall by Cameron Hawley
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1955, pp. 92-97
  9. Books
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    Fiction Chroncicle (8 Reviews)
    Arthur Mizener
    The Acceptance World, by Anthony Powell
    1. The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell
    2. A Perfect Woman by L.P. Hartley
    3. The Walker, and Other Stories by Patrick O'Brian
    4. Heritage by Anthony West
    5. The Inheritors by William Golding
    6. That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
    7. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    8. The Deer Park by Norman Mailer
    The Partisan Review, Winter 1956, pp. 97-102
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    The New Books (9 Reviews)
    Paul Pickrel
    Art, Taxes, and the Myth of the Rich
    1. Cash McCall by Cameron Hawley
    2. Architecture, Ambition and Americans by Wayne Andrews
    3. John Singer Sargent by Charles Merrill Mount
    4. American Painting: From the Armory Show to the Depression by Milton W. Brown
    5. Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
    6. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    7. Robert Benchley by Nathaniel Benchley
    8. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
    9. The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
    The Harpers Monthly, December 1955, pp. 88-103
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    Fiction Chronicle (10 Reviews)
    Robert Martin Adams
    Cards of Identity, by Nigel Forbes Dennis
    1. Cards of Identity by Nigel Forbes Dennis
    2. The Picnic at Sakkara by P.H. Newby
    3. A Show of Force by Stewart Thomson
    4. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
    5. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
    6. A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
    7. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
    8. The Partisans by Peter Matthiessen
    9. Money, Money, Money by David Wagoner
    10. The Thaw by Ilya Ehrenburg
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1955, pp. 627-632