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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 hangingon 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.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618470492
ISBN-13
9780618470495
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30476200

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Book Title
Heir to the Glimmering World
Author
Cynthia Ozick
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical, Jewish
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3565.Z5h45 2004
Reviews
Perhaps the fullest treatment yet of the European intellectual's flight from Hitler's Germany...one of Ozick's most interesting [works]. Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Audacious. . .[A] brilliant apostrophe to shattered worlds." --John Leonard The New York Times Book Review "In language aglow with fierce wit and passionate intensity. . .[Ozick's book] has all the hallmarks of a permanent work of literature." --Merle Rubin The Wall Street Journal "A novel as scintillating as this one makes the world infinitely new..." --James Marcus Newsday "A wise, quietly magical book." --James Sallis. The Washington Post, "In language aglow with fierce wit and passionate intensity. . .[Ozick's book] has all the hallmarks of a permanent work of literature." --Merle Rubin
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2004-042723
Dewey Decimal
Fic

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