2005, ISBN: 0618618805

[EAN: 9780618618804], Neubuch, [PU: MARINER BOOKS, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Cynthia Ozick is an American master at the height of her powers in Heir to the Glimme… Altro …

[EAN: 9780618618804], Neubuch, [PU: MARINER BOOKS, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Cynthia Ozick is an American master at the height of her powers in Heir to the Glimmering World, a grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune. Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe's ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "assistant" to a Herr Mitwisser, the patriarch of a large, chaotic household. Rosie, orphaned at eighteen, has been living with her distant relative Bertram, who sparks her first erotic desires. But just as he begins to return her affection, his lover, a radical socialist named Ninel (Lenin spelled backward), turns her out. And so Rosie takes refuge from love among refugees of world upheaval. Cast out from Berlin's elite, the Mitwissers live at the whim of a mysterious benefactor, James A'Bair. Professor Mitwisser is a terrifying figure, obsessed with his arcane research. His distraught wife, Elsa, once a prominent physicist, is becoming unhinged. Their willful sixteen-year-old daughter runs the household: the exquisite, enigmatic Anneliese. Rosie's place here is uncertain, and she finds her fate hanging on the arrival of James. Inspired by the real Christopher Robin, James is the Bear Boy, the son of a famous children's author who recreated James as the fanciful subject of his books. Also a kind of refugee, James runs from his own fame, a boy adored by the world but grown into a bitter man. It is Anneliese's fierce longing that draws James back to this troubled house, and it is Rosie who must help them all resist James's reckless orbit. Ozick lovingly evokes these perpetual outsiders thrown together by surprising chance. The hard times they inherit still hold glimmers of past hopes and future dreams. Heir to the Glimmering World is a generous delight., Books<

2005, ISBN: 9780618618804

A teenage girl goes to work for a chaotic family of Jewish immigrants, in a New York Times bestseller that's "a cause for celebration" (Ann Patchett).In the 1930s, New York is swarming wi… Altro …

A teenage girl goes to work for a chaotic family of Jewish immigrants, in a New York Times bestseller that's "a cause for celebration" (Ann Patchett).In the 1930s, New York is swarming with Europe's ousted dreamers, alien families adapting to a new world. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters the lives of one such family when she answers an ad for an "assistant" to a Herr Mitwisser, the patriarch of a large household living in an obscure little neighborhood, in a remote corner of the sparse and weedy northeast Bronx. With an uncertain future, and no clear idea of her duties, Roseorphaned at eighteen and recently turned out by loverhas become a refugee among refugees.Expelled from Berlin's elite, Professor Mitwissera researcher obsessed with an arcane religious doctrinelives with his wife, a prominent physicist now quietly going mad, and Anneliese, their willful sixteen-year-old daughter. When Anneliese's fierce longing draws a new outcast into the folda vagrant actor running from fameit's up to Rose to quell the emotional, sexual, spiritual, and societal tempests brewing within the Mitwissers unsettled home.Hailed by the New York Times as "the most accomplished and graceful literary stylist of our time," Cynthia Ozick is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Nabokov Award and PEN/Malamud Award, and Heir to the Glimmering World is yet another triumph from the author of the National Book Award finalist The Puttermesser Papers and Foreign Bodies."A heroine to love, a story we can't let go of, gorgeous sentences, and ideas to wrestle with. I didn't just read the book, I devoured." Ann Patchett, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005-09-01, 6<

2005, ISBN: 0618618805

[EAN: 9780618618804], Neubuch, [PU: Houghton Mifflin], FICTION LITERARY ENGLISCH ROMANE ERZäHLUNGEN, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Si… Altro …

[EAN: 9780618618804], Neubuch, [PU: Houghton Mifflin], FICTION LITERARY ENGLISCH ROMANE ERZäHLUNGEN, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. James A bair, whose father is the author of the popular series The Bear Boy, has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy as she pursues her own desires, in a novel that evokes De., Books<

2005, ISBN: 0618618805

Kartoniert / Broschiert FICTION / Literary, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Houghton Mifflin]