An edition of Heir to the glimmering world (2004)

Heir to the glimmering world

  • 0 Ratings
  • 3 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read
Heir to the glimmering world
Cynthia Ozick
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 3 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
July 26, 2024 | History
An edition of Heir to the glimmering world (2004)

Heir to the glimmering world

  • 0 Ratings
  • 3 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

"Cynthia 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Publisher
RB Large Print
Language
English
Pages
473

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Heir to the glimmering world
Heir to the glimmering world
2005, RB Large Print
in English
Cover of: Heir to the glimmering world
Heir to the glimmering world
2004, Houghton Mifflin
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

"LP215"--Spine.

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Published in
Prince Frederick, MD
Genre
Fiction.

The Physical Object

Pagination
473 p. (large print) ;
Number of pages
473

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23058152M
ISBN 10
1419327658
Library Thing
17931

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
July 26, 2024 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
July 15, 2019 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
August 19, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
October 17, 2009 Edited by WorkBot add edition to work page
February 18, 2009 Created by ImportBot Imported from San Francisco Public Library record