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TheGroup

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Damian Barr

Published in 1963 but set in the 1930s, The Group follows eight young women arriving in NYC fresh from Vassar College. It scandalized with scenes of sex, contraception and (gasp) breast-feeding. Norman Mailer dismissed it as "a trivial lady writer's novel". Candace Bushnell says it inspired Sex and the City.

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