Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
of Sigrid Nunez, Peter Cameron (Afterword)
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âThe tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society.â âDwight Garner, The New York Times âIn short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent Woolfs during a darkening time.â âThe Wall Street JournalIn 1934, a sickly marmoset named Mitz came into the care of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. After nursing her back to health, Leonard was rarely seen without the monkey on his shoulder. Mitz moved with the Woolfs between their homes in London and Sussex. She developed her own special relationships with the familyâs cocker spaniels and with the various members of the Woolfsâ circle, including T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. Mitz also played a vital role in helping the Woolfs escape a close call with Nazis in Germany just before World War II. Blending letters, diaries, and memoirs, Sigrid Nunez reconstructs Mitzâs life, painting it against the backdrop of Bloomsbury in its twilight years. Tender, affectionate, and filled with humor, this novel offers a striking look at lives shadowed by war, death, and mental illness, as well as the happiness and productivity the creature inspired. A new edition, now with an afterword by Peter Cameron.
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- Format E-book
- Pages 172 pages
- Publisher Soft Skull Press
- Publication Date August 6th 2019
- First Publication 04/21/98
- Language Not informed
- ISBN 9781593765828
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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