Starting The Group

The Group by Mary McCarthy



I had never even heard of this book but it was briefly featured on an episode of 'Mad Men.' The character Betty Draper was reading this in the bed and they showed the title. I love when they choose to show what characters are reading on shows because it makes things seem realistic. This is a sure change from the contemporary fiction that I have been reading lately as this book is set in the period of 1930s to 1950s. We'll see.....

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Opening line: "It was June, 1933, one week after Commencement, when Kay Leiland Strong, Vassar '33, the first of her class to run around the table at the Class Day dinner, was married to Harald Petersen, Reed '27, in the chapel of St. George's Church, P.E., Karl F. Reiland, Rector."