{"product_id":"mitz-the-marmoset-of-bloomsbury-paperback","title":"Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSigrid Nunez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Cameron\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf from a National Book Award-winning author.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eMitz\u003c\/i\u003e by Nigel Nicolson. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent Woolfs during a darkening time.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSigrid Nunez\u003c\/b\u003e has published seven novels, including \u003ci\u003eA Feather on the Breath of God\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFor Rouenna, The Last of Her Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. Her honors include a Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. Nunez is also the author of \u003ci\u003eSempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Cameron\u003c\/b\u003e's novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAndorra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe City of Your Final Destination\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSomeday This Pain Will Be Useful to You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCoral Glynn, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Happens at Night\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 172\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44640306364518,"sku":"9781593765828","price":23.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/OXJpODFCTlBOclhORUlkRHVpbnRhZz09.webp?v=1770922355","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/mitz-the-marmoset-of-bloomsbury-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}