THE COMPANY SHE KEEPS

by Mary McCarthy ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 8, 1942

The company she keeps are literati, socialists, sophisticates, Men; she is Margaret, witty, attractive, dissatisfied, restlessly running through marriages, engagements, and affairs. This is a portrait through episodes, sketches -- it is shrewd, smart, pitiless -- it is clever, often amusing, more often uncomfortable. There's Margaret divorcing her husband for the drama of the thing -- there's a pretty vulgar sprawl and brawl on a Pullman going West -- there's the Liberal where she works -- and the Innocent she exploits and eludes. Lastly at a ""psychoanalyst's"", her latest husband's idea, a scene where she neatly circumvents the doctor but not the patient. Portrait of a very lost lady, in all her brilliance, beauty and sterility. For women, with a taste for the mundane, or for cerebral niceties.

Pub Date: May 8, 1942

ISBN: 0156027860

Page Count: -

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1942

Categories: FICTION