Volume 34, Number 10 · June 11, 1987
True Confessions
By Alison Lurie
How I Grew
by Mary McCarthy
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 278 pp., $16.95
Recently Mary McCarthy told an interviewer from The New York Times that she has not had 'the slightest effect on public behavior.' With all due respect to her reputation for unsparing honesty, it must be said that this statement is not true. From the appearance of her first stories, she has altered the public idea of what a women of letters can be. Since then she has continued to expand this conception in many surprising directions. In spite of her declared disinterest in feminism, she has surely changed the lives of generations of intelligent young women.
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