Ebook: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; To the Reader; Yonder Peasant, Who Is He?; A Tin Butterfly; The Blackguard; C''est le Premier Pas Qui Coûte; Names; The Figures in the Clock; Yellowstone Park; Ask Me No Questions; Image Gallery; A Biography of Mary McCarthy; Copyright.;Tracing her moral struggles to the day she accidentally took a sip of water before her Communion-a mortal sin-Mary McCarthy gives us eight funny and heartrending essays about the illusive and redemptive nature of memory"During the course of writing this, I've often wished that I were writing fiction."Originally published in large part as standalone essays in the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar, Mary McCarthy's acclaimed memoir begins with her recollections of a happy childhood cut tragically short by the death of her parents during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering memory with invention