A bolt from the blue and other essays / Mary McCarthy ; edited and with an introduction by A.O. Scott.

Author/creator McCarthy, Mary
Other author Scott, A. O.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York Review Books, 2002.
Descriptionxvii, 389 pages ; 22 cm

Contents Introduction to Theatre chronicles -- Class angles and a Wilder classic -- Shaw and Chekhov -- Eugene O'Neill : dry ice -- A streetcar called success -- A new word -- The American realist playwrights -- Elizabethan revivals -- A bolt from the blue -- Burroughs's Naked lunch -- J.D. Salinger's closed circuit -- On Madame Bovary -- Hanging by a thread -- On rereading a favorite book -- Acts of love -- The fact in fiction -- Ideas and the novel : lecture I -- America the beautiful : the humanist in the bathtub -- Mlle. Gulliver en amérique -- My confession -- Up the ladder from Charm to Vogue -- Letter from Portugal -- The home program -- Philip Rahv (1908-1973) -- F.W. Dupee (1904-1979) -- The very unforgettable Miss Brayton -- Notes of a resident of the Watergate -- The moral certainties of John D. Ehrlichman.
LCCN 2002002881
ISBN1590170105 (alk. paper)
ISBN0940322935

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Joyner General Stacks PS3525.A1435 B65 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold