Cannibals and Missionaries Summary
Mary McCarthy

Cannibals and Missionaries Summary

Like The Group (1963), Cannibals and Missionaries is concerned with confusion about values and with the difficulty of generating manners and standards of conduct which live up to ideology. The milieu, urban terrorism, conflicting ideologies, and great gaps not only between haves and have-nots but between priorities and values, create a condition of instability and isolation which requires some form of balancing. A rational sense of the self and one's...

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