Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

by Mary McCarthy

Overview

This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need to fictionalize for the sake of a good story with the need for honesty, she creates interchapters that tell the reader what she has inferred or invented. Photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156586504
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/15/1972
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	538,252
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARY MCCARTHY (1912–1989) was an award-winning short-story writer, bestselling novelist, essayist, and critic. She was the author of The Stones of Florence and Birds of America, among other books.

Table of Contents

	To the Reader	3
	Yonder Peasant, Who Is He?	29
	A Jin Butterfly	54
	The Blackguard	87
	C'est le Premier Pas Qui Coute	102
	Names	127
	The Figures in the Clock	141
	Yellowstone Park	169
	Ask Me No Questions	195