Sigrid Nunez
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| Original Title: | Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury ASIN B07MHZM18S |
| Literary Awards: | Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1999) |
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“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
In 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 family’s cocker spaniels and with the various members of the Woolfs’ 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 Mitz’s 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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| Title | : | Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury |
| Author | : | Sigrid Nunez |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 172 pages |
| Published | : | August 6th 2019 by Soft Skull Press (first published April 21st 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Animals |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 350 Users | 67 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
I must begin this review by saying how ignorant I feel.....AND...THIS BOOK WAS SIGNIFICANTLY PERSONAL & SPECIAL....THIS WAS THE PERFECT BOOK for me - at the right time. Although.... I cant help it wonder if I read this 10 years ago....might it have set my reading off to a different direction. Heres what happened for me in this wonderful - 150 pages - thin orange-colored book with a little photo of Mitz....The Marmoset of Bloomsbury...I FELL IN LOVE WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF - her husbandThis might be the sweetest book for adults I've ever read. It is as much a book about the Woolves as it is about Mitz, but Mitz is never a means to an end - she has her own autonomy, her own importance. It is a relief to read a non-fiction work about Virginia Woolf that doesn't mention her death, and to read about the daily lives of two prolific artists who had, relatively speaking, a calm and quiet existence together, in love.
Update: Today, August 6th 2019 - happy publication day for this novel.There is so much I loved while reading this novel that it is difficult to know where to begin.Perhaps I should state that for me, there are very few writers who can tell a story without side agendas getting in the way when it comes to the actual people who helped shape our world. Specifically the people who lived within the last couple of centuries: the scientists, artists, actors, inventors, musicians, sports heroes,
Sigrid Nunez is an author that despite a lifetime of incredible work and quiet dedication, I can usually bank on the fact that most customers haven't heard of her. That is until she won the National Book Award last year for her absolutely incredible novel, 'The Friend." Since she won the NBA, there have been reissues of her work. Enter "Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury," a novella about, yes, the marmoset that lived at Bloomsbury, the primary home of Virginia and Leonard Woolfe. I must admit, an
The fictionalized biography of Mitz, a marmoset owned by Leonard Woolf, from about the end of the Bloomsbury era to the outbreak of WWII. Mitz is a mischievous, chattering observer to the Woolfs devoted, if a bit Victorian, relationship; their sometimes haughty relationship with their servants and printing press staff; Virginias odd adoration of her sister and Vita Sackville-West (who was certainly her literary inferior); their 1935 tour of Europe, including a rather misguided drive through Nazi
This story centers around Mitz, a pet marmoset, that came to live with Leonard and Virginia Woolf (yes, those Woolfs) as they were pet sitting for friends of their, the Rothschilds. Upon their return, however, it seems it was settled that Mitz would stay on with the Woolfs, as she seemed to have made a permanent home in their hearts. This is more than just a charming pet memoir of a unique pet I dont know about anyone else, but Ive never known anyone, personally, who had a pet marmoset but
The best word to describe this book is delightful. Signed Nunez has captured the love and loyalty between animal and owner beautifully. What makes this book even more enticing is that said animal is a marmoset and said owners are Leonard and Virginia Woolf.Mitz the Marmoset takes us into the daily lives of the Woolfs. I dont tend to idolize movie stars, but I do idolize authors and their talent. To learn more about Virginia and her husband was definitely enlightening, as well as the references
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