Glad to hear that you enjoyed The Group! I love Mary McCarthy & I hope you will maybe read more of her. She is a great writer and a very interesting woman, not only as a writer.
I'm currently reading this book because I saw it on the Rory Gilmore Reading List. I'm really enjoying it and find a lot of it very funny just because it's so different from today.
They made it into a movie in 1966 with some soon to be familiar faces. It wasn't very good, but it is worth a see and it's quite watchable. Actually, I love it, for some wrong reasons, but the book was much better, of course. It's actually quite famous by now as a good example of social history in novel form. In the book, these young women from upper class (mostly) backgrounds have just graduated from an elite girls' college, just as the Depression reached its worst in 1933 and FDR and his New Deal administration took office. Suddenly, young educated women are more politically-aware and sexually active and yet older ideas prevail and they have a hard time resolving the contradictions. We see how they proceed for the next seven years or so of their lives as they navigate the mine fields of young adulthood during interesting times, for instance in love and marriage (not always at the same time) or insane relatives and new-found poverty. I think one of the points of the novel is that school prepared them for everything except real life, especially sex and men and they mostly either go wrong or have to learn on their own. And it's done so well and so well-integrated between the group members that you're just swept into the story and you can't put it down until the end. Watch the movie and then when you're older, read the book again. I think you'll like it even better the next time.
Glad to hear that you enjoyed The Group! I love Mary McCarthy & I hope you will maybe read more of her. She is a great writer and a very interesting woman, not only as a writer.
I read this book almost 50 years ago when I was in high school. It’s still one of my favorites.
I'm currently reading this book because I saw it on the Rory Gilmore Reading List. I'm really enjoying it and find a lot of it very funny just because it's so different from today.
I have this about ten years in a fairly early edition.Haven't read it yet!
Great review! I'm about halfway through my copy
This book goes to my TBR! I will pick it up as soon as I can find it :)
They made it into a movie in 1966 with some soon to be familiar faces. It wasn't very good, but it is worth a see and it's quite watchable. Actually, I love it, for some wrong reasons, but the book was much better, of course. It's actually quite famous by now as a good example of social history in novel form. In the book, these young women from upper class (mostly) backgrounds have just graduated from an elite girls' college, just as the Depression reached its worst in 1933 and FDR and his New Deal administration took office. Suddenly, young educated women are more politically-aware and sexually active and yet older ideas prevail and they have a hard time resolving the contradictions. We see how they proceed for the next seven years or so of their lives as they navigate the mine fields of young adulthood during interesting times, for instance in love and marriage (not always at the same time) or insane relatives and new-found poverty. I think one of the points of the novel is that school prepared them for everything except real life, especially sex and men and they mostly either go wrong or have to learn on their own. And it's done so well and so well-integrated between the group members that you're just swept into the story and you can't put it down until the end. Watch the movie and then when you're older, read the book again. I think you'll like it even better the next time.
I definitely still like the sound of this book, thanks for the review :)
This sounds really interesting - I might have to check it out 🙂
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