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04398cam a2200697 a 4500 001 F4F718262B0611DE8E590108A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20220930010357 008 040205s2004 mau 000 1 eng 010 $a 2004042723 020 $a 9780618470495 020 $a 0618470492 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d NLGGC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d GRR $d JTH $d JUH $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a PS3565.Z5 $b H45 2004 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 22 100 1 $a Ozick, Cynthia. 245 1 $a Heir to the glimmering world / $c Cynthia Ozick. 260 $a Boston : $b Houghton Mifflin, $c 2004. 300 $a 310 p. ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a 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. 651 0 $a Bronx (New York, N.Y.) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Inheritance and succession $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children of authors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Jewish refugees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Jewish families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Benefactors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rich people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nannies $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Orphans $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcsh 655 7 $a Jewish fiction. $2 lcsh 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 856 41 $3 Sample text $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/hm051/2004042723.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm051/2004042723.html 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/2004042723-b.html 941 $a 22 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430012056.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201013645.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909013736.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518011601.0 952 $l NHPD993 $d 20201013093636.0 952 $l NKPD993 $d 20180718033425.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180126020534.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418042413.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160820080123.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20160213021253.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20090708133753.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UDAX314 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l RHPB371 $m F OZI $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OMAX631 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l AJPE887 $m Fic Ozi $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20090806113132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F4F718262B0611DE8E590108A8D7520A 994 $a 03 $b JUHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search