The Collected Novels Volume One: The Group, The Company She Keeps, and Birds of America

By: Mary McCarthy

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Synopsis: Three brilliant novels from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Navigating friendship, sex, careers, and the challenges of adulthood, the characters of Mary McCarthy&’s novels remain instantly relatable, whether they&’re living in 1930s New York City or 1960s Paris. Here, three of her most outstanding works are collected in one volume. The Group: This &“witty . . . brilliant&” blockbuster bestseller follows eight privileged girls from their youthful friendship at Vassar through their complicated journeys into womanhood (Cosmopolitan). The Company She Keeps: A &“clever, witty, polished&” novel about a young bohemian&’s daring political and romantic explorations among an intellectual Manhattan social circle (TheNew York Times). Birds of America: In 1964, a shy young student and birdwatcher arrives in Paris to study at the Sorbonne and finds himself disoriented by the rapidly changing world around him. This &“endlessly fascinating novel&” (San Francisco Chronicle) is &“in the same class as Henry James&’s The American and Henry Miller&’s Tropic of Cancer&” (Esquire). Known for her satirical wit and blending of autobiographical detail from her own colorful life into her fiction, McCarthy was a literary icon whose books provide a rich glimpse of mid-twentieth-century America and a psychologically astute, timeless reading experience.

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