Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

â€œThe tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society.â€ â€•Dwight Garner, The New York Times

â€œIn short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent Woolfs during a darkening time.â€ â€•The Wall Street Journal

By the National Book Awardâ€“winning author of The Friend

In 1934, a "sickly pathetic marmosetâ€ 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 Woolfsâ€™ 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 Mitzâ€™s life against the background of Bloomsburyâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Soft Skull Press
Manufacturer Soft Skull
Binding Paperback
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2019-08-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781593765828

Country	USA
Brand	Soft Skull Press
Manufacturer	Soft Skull
Binding	Paperback
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2019-08-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781593765828

Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

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