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A first Penguin PB Edition, 1963, of the 1957 memoir by Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Childhood.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.
A longtime critic and writer for the New Yorker magazine, McCarthy was the author of The Group and The Company She Keeps.
Rubbing to the edges , previous owners neat inked inscription dated 1972 to inner front cover.
