Mitz (eBook)

Sigrid Nunez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
172 Seiten
Catapult (Verlag)
978-1-59376-583-5 (ISBN)

Infos

By 2018 National Book Award–winning author Sigrid Nunez, Mitz is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, as refracted through their small, sickly, pampered, affectionate pet marmoset, Mitz

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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year

“The tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

“In short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent Woolfs during a darkening time.” —The Wall Street Journal


By the National Book Award–winning author of The Friend



In 1934, a "sickly pathetic marmoset” named Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. After he nursed her back to health, she became a ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society. Moving with Leonard and Virginia Woolf between their homes in London and Sussex, she developed her own special relationship with each of them, as well as with their pet cocker spaniels and with various members of the Woolfs’ circle, among them T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. Mitz also helped the Woolfs escape a close call with Nazis during a trip through Germany just before the outbreak of World War II. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, and other archival documents, Nunez reconstructs Mitz’s life against the background of Bloomsbury’s twilight years. This tender and imaginative mock biography offers a striking look at the lives of writers and artists shadowed by war, death, and mental breakdown, and at the solace and amusement inspired by its tiny subject. A new edition, with an afterword by Peter Cameron and a never-before-published letter about Mitz by Nigel Nicolson.

Autor

lt;b>SIGRID NUNEZ has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, For Rouenna, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, The Friend, which won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. Her honors include a Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. Nunez is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag.

PETER CAMERON’s novels include The Weekend, Andorra, The City of Your Final Destination, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, and, most recently, Coral Glynn.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2019
• Nachwort: Peter Cameron
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Biographical Fiction • Bloomsbury • Bloomsbury writers • books by sigrid nunez • books like the friend • famous pets • fictionalized biography • Leonard Woolf • London • Marmoset • Marmosets • mitz sigrid nunez • mitz the marmoset of bloomsbury • National Book Award • National Book Award winning authors • novels about pets • novels about Virginia Woolf • novels set in bloomsbury • pet monkey • Pets • Virginia Woolf • Virginia woolf biography • Virginia Woolf life • Virginia Woolf pet • virginia woolf pet monkey • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-59376-583-5 / 1593765835
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-583-5 / 9781593765835