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Cast a Cold Eye
by Mary McCarthy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Blue Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. Titles & contents list to front. The seven stories collected here showcase McCarthy's formidable powers of observation, her deliciously witty writing style, and her celebrated talent for dissecting characters with biting acuity. A young woman looks for subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways to escape her unsatisfying marriage; an innocuous single man's friends realize his companionship has an enormous price; and an Italian guide puzzles a traveling pair of Americans. Mary McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 212 pages. in library acetate film protection with tape marrks (brown) to edge of inner flaps & to book covers. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine. small piece torn from margin of page 145/146 not affecting text. Library stamps to inside front & rear covers, title page, verso & end-papers with library label glued to fep.. / Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; American Literature; American Writers; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 5115. .
Synopsis
The seven stories collected here showcase McCarthy's formidable powers of observation, her deliciously witty writing style, and her celebrated talent for dissecting characters with biting acuity. A young woman looks for subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways to escape her unsatisfying marriage; an innocuous single man's friends realize his companionship has an enormous price; and an Italian guide puzzles a traveling pair of Americans.
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5115
- Title
- Cast a Cold Eye
- Author
- Mary McCarthy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Blue Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Fiction/Short Stories/Literature & Literary/American Literature/American Writers/Mary McCarthy Fiction; Short Stories; American Literature; American Writers; Literature & Literary. Unbranded Mary McCarthy Cast a Cold Eye
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