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|title= The Group
|author= Mary McCarthy
|buy= Yes
|borrow= Yes
|pages=448
|publisher= Virago
|date= Decmber December 2009
|isbn=978-1844085934
|sort= Group
|cover=1844085937
|aznuk=1844085937
|aznus=1844085937
}}
As The Group is not chicklit, there are few fairytale endings for the women in this novel. Some resolutions are better than others, but McCarthy was interested in a realistic portrait of how the lives of these women were likely to turn out.
I was a bit sceptical about the choice of Candace Bushnell to write the introduction to this edition – it seemed like quite a cynical ploy to present the novel as a forerunner of Sex and the City. In fact the introduction sets out very well what impressed Bushnell as a writer hhank herself about the book, and its place as a feminist classic. Thank you to the publishers for sending the book to The Bookbag.
Another 20th century novel recently reprinted by Virago Modern Classics is [[Faces in the Water by Janet Frame]]. Chandra Prasad's [[On Borrowed Wings by Chandra Prasad|On Borrowed Wings]] is set in the US in the 1930s.
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