Heir to the glimmering world

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  • Auteur: Ozick, Cynthia
    Contributor:

    Dretzin, Julie

    Résumé:

    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.

    Subject(s): Fiction, Inheritance and succession
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. , Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781449890582

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Dretzin, Julie

Abstract

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.

Genre
Domestic fiction
Historical fiction
Subject
Fiction
Inheritance and succession
Publisher (Source)

Prince Frederick, Md.

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