![]() Life unfolds with its joys and triumphs, as well as its sorrows and challenges. The young women - Kay, Dottie, Mary, Press, Libby, Elinor (Lakey), Helena, and Polly, are beginning to experience the trials of young adulthood just as America is gripped by the Great Depression. The book follows the lives of a group of friends from Vassar College (which McCarthy attended), from the time of their graduation in 1933. The film version of The Group premiered in 1966, featuring a stellar cast (including a breakthrough role for Candice Bergen) and direction by Sidney Lumet. The book was banned in several countries, but that didn’t deter it from being a huge international hit. Considered rather scandalous for its time, it touched on issues of contraception, abortion, mental illness, male chauvinism, and lesbian relationships, as experienced by young women in the 1930s. The Group hit the New York Times Bestseller List several weeks after its publication and stayed there for nearly two years. ![]() ![]() Known for trenchant works of fiction and nonfiction, McCarthy may not have predicted that this juicy, gossipy novel, with elements of autobiography, would be a great part of her lasting legacy. ![]() ![]() The Group (1963), is arguably American author Mary McCarthy’s best-known work. ![]()
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