In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, McCarthy pays homage to the past and creates hope for the future. Reminiscent of Nabokov’s Speak, Memory, this is a funny, honest, and unsparing account blessed. Her Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), which is autobiographical, was highly praised by critics. It was followed by The Group (1963), the novel for which McCarthy is perhaps best known. The book, which follows eight Vassar women of the class of 1933 through their subsequent careers and the intellectual fads of the 1930s and ’40s, became. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Paperback – Illustrated, March 15 1972 by Mary McCarthy (Author) › Visit Amazon's Mary McCarthy page. Find all the books, read about the author and more. Search results for this author. Mary McCarthy (Author) 3.9 out of 5 stars 63 ratings. An edition of Memories of a Catholic girlhood(1957) Memories of a Catholic girlhood. By McCarthy, Mary. 0 Currently reading. This edition was published in 1981by Harcourt Brace Jovanovichin San Diego. Written in English. 826 Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy (read 19 Oct 1965) I disapproved of this book, since I disapprove of people losing their Catholic Faith. Wikipedia has an article on the book: Haven't read this for a while, so I'm not going to summarize, just give an impression.
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- Tracing her moral struggles to the day she accidentally took a sip of water before her Communion--a mortal sin--Mary McCarthy gives us eight funny and heartrending essays about the illusive and redemptive nature of memory 'During the course of writing this, I've often wished that I were writing fiction.'Originally published in large part as standalone essays in the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar, Mary McCarthy's acclaimed memoir begins with her recollections of a happy childhood cut tragically short by the death of her parents during the influenza epidemic of 1918.Tempering memory with invention, McCarthy describes how, orphaned at six, she spent much of her childhood shuttled between two sets of grandparents and three religions--Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish. One of four children, she suffered abuse at the hands of her great-aunt and uncle until she moved to Seattle to be raised by her maternal grandparents. Early on, McCarthy lets the reader in on her secret: The chapter you just read may not be wholly reliable--facts have been distilled through the hazy lens of time and distance.In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, McCarthy pays homage to the past and creates hope for the future. Reminiscent of Nabokov's Speak, Memory, this is a funny, honest, and unsparing account blessed with the holy sacraments of forgiveness, love, and redemption.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author's estate.
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Showing 1-5 of 9 (next | show all) NA pszolovits | Feb 3, 2021 | I 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 remembered and what was made up. Sometimes it was a slog, but most times a sad and funny glimpse into the life of a young woman between the wars. ( ) cindywho | May 27, 2019 | An excellent memoir of a fervidly religious, fiercely intelligent young girl who comes to question her faith (which cannot help but remind me of Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter), this book is exactly as its title suggests, recounting (episodes collected from a magazine series) the author's girl/orphan-hood, with a focus on how Catholicism has influenced and shaped her. My favourite parts of the book are the epilogues of each episode, where the author questions her own memories, corrects certain events, and reasons the liberties that she took. I love when authors do this.* Because after all, what is memory but what we make of it. And by publishing them, the author has ensured that this is now the version that will live on. It's like every time you re-tell a story about yourself. After a while, the story becomes so well-practised or repeated that it eventually has a life of its own beyond you, it's no longer really your memory anymore but a collective memory that lives on through your listeners/readers. *I particularly love books which deal with memories, collective memories, questions (the importance of) the 'truth' of the memories. I think it's because in high school English, we had to do a module on Memory and my mind has not yet grasped the fact that I'm no longer in high school and is still on the lookout for supplementary texts. ( ) kitzyl | Oct 3, 2018 | This book was 'just okay' for me. McCarthy's MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD has been languishing on my shelf for several years now. Bought it because I remembered reading THE GROUP back in the 60s, when it was a big bestseller and something of a shocker for its time. And actually this one is a bit shocking too at times. McCarthy was just six years old when both her parents died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. She and her three younger brothers (one of whom was actor Kevin McCarthy) were put in the care of McCarthy relatives in Minneapolis who treated them very badly; their story had a Dickensian quality - bad food, patched clothes, no toys, whippings, etc. After five years of this, the boys were put into a private school and Mary was taken to live with her Preston grandparents in Seattle, where she attended a convent school, a public school and a private girls' seminary, until she went away to Vassar at just 17. Her struggles with her Catholic faith and to fit in at these schools are often interesting, but not always. Her stories of sampling Montana moonshine and dating a married man during one summer are amusing, and maybe a little horrifying too, all at the same time. Perhaps least interesting is her attempts at understanding and explaining her Grandmother Preston, who was Jewish. In the end, the woman remained an enigma and a mystery. MEMORIES was only mildly interesting to me, so I'm not sure if I will read the next one, HOW I GREW, which is also on my shelf. But for anyone interested in learning more about Mary McCarthy, I would not hesitate to recommend this book. (three and a half stars) - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER ( ) TimBazzett | Dec 29, 2016 | An 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 thoughtful and insightful, and in the retrospective notes McCarthy is more forgiving than many would be. The first two pieces are painful to read, as they depict the bleak time after her parents' deaths when she lived with relatives who were less comprehending and compassionate than we would hope orphaned children would be blessed with. I enjoyed the book very much all told and her reflections on her Catholic upbringing were illumiinating. ( ) thesmellofbooks | Oct 26, 2012 | Showing 1-5 of 9 (next | show all) ▼Published reviews Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher SeriesPrivé-domein (1) Is contained inMary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, How I Grew, and Intellectual Memoirs by Mary McCarthy ▼Common Knowledge
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (2)Tracing her moral struggles to the day she accidentally took a sip of water before her Communion--a mortal sin--Mary McCarthy gives us eight funny and heartrending essays about the illusive and redemptive nature of memory 'During the course of writing this, I've often wished that I were writing fiction.' Originally published in large part as standalone essays in the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar, Mary McCarthy's acclaimed memoir begins with her recollections of a happy childhood cut tragically short by the death of her parents during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering memory with invention, McCarthy describes how, orphaned at six, she spent much of her childhood shuttled between two sets of grandparents and three religions--Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish. One of four children, she suffered abuse at the hands of her great-aunt and uncle until she moved to Seattle to be raised by her maternal grandparents. Early on, McCarthy lets the reader in on her secret: The chapter you just read may not be wholly reliable--facts have been distilled through the hazy lens of time and distance. In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, McCarthy pays homage to the past and creates hope for the future. Reminiscent of Nabokov's Speak, Memory, this is a funny, honest, and unsparing account blessed with the holy sacraments of forgiveness, love, and redemption. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author's estate. No library descriptions found. ▼LibraryThing members' description
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