Mitz, Sigrid Nunez
Mitz, Sigrid Nunez
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Mitz
The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

Author: Sigrid Nunez

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 2 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2014

Synopsis

In the summer of 1934, a sickly, pathetic marmoset called Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. He nursed her back to health and from then on was rarely seen without her on his shoulder. A ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society, Mitz moved with Leonard and Virginia Woolf and their circle, developing special relationships with such associates as T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. She accompanied the Woolfs on their travels and even played an important role in helping them to escape a close call with Nazis in Germany. Using letters, diaries, and memoirs, Nunez reconstructs Mitzs life against the background of Bloomsbury in its twilight years. Tender, affectionate, and humorous, Mitz provides an intimate portrait of a most uncommon household, a glimpse of what Virginia Woolf once described as the private side of lifethe play side, represented by ones pets.

About Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez is the author of several novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award; Naked Sleeper; and The Last of Her Kind. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including two Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian American literature. Sigrid has taught at Amherst College, Smith College, Columbia University, and the New School, and she has been a visiting writer at Washington University, Baruch College, and the University of California, Irvine. She lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by j e w e l s on July 22, 2019

FIVE CHARMING STARS I doubt I would ever have come across (much less read) this tender little gem of a book. Many, many thanks to Soft Skull Press for sending me a copy to review! I loved Nunez's National Book Award winner The Friend and I love this one even more. “…Sigrid Nunez still views writing th......more

Goodreads review by Jaline on August 06, 2019

Update: Today, August 6th 2019 - happy publication day for this novel. There is so much I loved while reading this novel that it is difficult to know where to begin. Perhaps I should state that for me, there are very few writers who can tell a story without side agendas getting in the way when it come......more

Goodreads review by Peter on August 19, 2019

This is a short read, but a most refreshing one. It has been re-issued due to the success of Sigrid Nunez's National Book Award winning The Friend. Mitz shares several traits with that wonderful novel - it's another story about a bequeathed pet, and it also gives us an intriguing glimpse into the li......more

Goodreads review by Krista on July 21, 2019

When Virginia joked about how much she and Mitz had in common, she was right. Two nervous, delicate, wary females, one as relentlessly curious as the other. Both in love with Leonard – for both, he was their rock, their “inviolable centre”. They both were mischievous. They both had claws. Mitz is......more

Goodreads review by Soft Skull on January 18, 2019

By 2018 National Book Award–winning author Sigrid Nunez, MITZ is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, as refracted through their small, sickly, pampered, affectionate pet marmoset, Mitz.......more

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