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Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

Nunez, Sigrid
Cameron, Peter

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ISBN10: 1593765827
ISBN13: 9781593765828
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: Aug 6 2019
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
This tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society (The New York Times) is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf from a National Book Award-winning author.

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--and this new edition includes an afterword by Peter Cameron and a never-before-published letter about Mitz by Nigel Nicolson.

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

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