Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly
outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America
between two world wars. "Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually
brilliant."--CosmopolitanAward-winning Mary McCarthy's most celebrated
novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their
classmates as “the group.” An eclectic mix of personalities and
upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get
married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult lives --
traveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and
finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the
years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each
other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and
fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back
together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most
importantly, a member of the group.