A review by dycook
The Oasis by Mary McCarthy

4.0

Hmm... Why is this book so poorly rated? Personally, I found this novel to be a stylistic steppingstone somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Thomas Pynchon. McCarthy certainly deserves to be considered among that kind of company, both for her witty prose and sharp commentary (this is probably one of the most incisive Cold War novels I've read). It's a difficult read, but worth the time.