Mitz : the marmoset of Bloomsbury
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New York : Soft Skull, [2019].
Edition
First soft skull edition.
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157 pages ; 21 cm
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NUNEZ 2019
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Published
New York : Soft Skull, [2019].
Format
Book
Edition
First soft skull edition.
Language
English

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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. By the National Book Awardwinning 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 Mitzs life against the background of Bloomsburys 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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Nunez, S. (2019). Mitz: the marmoset of Bloomsbury (First soft skull edition.). Soft Skull.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nunez, Sigrid. 2019. Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury. Soft Skull.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nunez, Sigrid. Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury Soft Skull, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Nunez, Sigrid. Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury First soft skull edition., Soft Skull, 2019.

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