02128cam a2200325 i 4500 295943044 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 720420s1963||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 63015316 /L/r8522 9780156372084 0156372088 (OCoLC)282992 TxAuBib rda McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989. The group [BOOK] / Mary McCarthy. [First edition. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1963] 378 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A novel. Mary McCarthy's The Group is a sharply-pointed satire of upper-class New England society which follows the post-college lives of eight Vassar graduates, class of '33. Helena was registered for Vassar at birth; Pokey forged her mother's signature on her college application in defiance of the family tradition of "being dim-witted and vain of it." Out in the "real" world, Dottie loses her virginity to a "bad sort" but discovers that she enjoys sex, while Kay subsumes her own talent to the artistic "genius" of her egocentric and philandering husband. Libby writes book reviews that are almost as long as the original material and Polly works as a nurse, while Priss is forced by her pediatrician-husband to go against "tradition" and her inclinations and breastfeed her baby, as proof of his theories. Elinor "Lakey" Eastlake, the sleek, rich leader of the group, travels about Europe and ultimately returns, full of surprises. Adopting the non-stop, generally well-intentioned, but hopelessly narrow-minded voice that typifies the worst of the group, Mary McCarthy filets Ivy League society, socialism, 1930s child-rearing practices, sexual double-standards, psychoanalysis, and men in general. 20100106. Women college graduates Fiction. Women Fiction. New England Fiction. Psychological fiction.