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Author:

Ozick, Cynthia.

Title:

Heir to the glimmering world / Cynthia Ozick.

Publisher:

RB Large Print,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

473 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Inheritance and succession.--Fiction.
Children of authors--Fiction.
Refugees, Jewish--Fiction.
Jewish families.--Fiction.
Benefactors--Fiction.
Rich people--Fiction.
Nannies.--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Large type books.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Jewish fiction.

Notes:

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781419327650
1419327658

Locations:

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)