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Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury - 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 familys 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 Mitzs 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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⚡️Book Title : Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
⚡Book Author : Sigrid Nunez
⚡Page : 172 pages
⚡Published August 6th 2019 by Soft Skull Press (first published April 21st 1998)

Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

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 familys 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 Mitzs 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.