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Up in the Old Hotel
Joseph Mitchell
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Description for Up in the Old Hotel
paperback. Ian McEwan Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. Written between 1943 and 1965, this book offers the complete collection of Joseph Mitchell's "New Yorker" journalism and includes "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon", "Old Mr Flood", "The Bottom of the Harbour" and "Joe Gould's Secret". Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 197 x 39. Weight in Grams: 508.
'The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwan
Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink saloons, all-night restaurants, the 'visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the end-is-near street preachers, old Gypsy Kings and old Gypsy Queens, and out-and-out freak-show freaks.' Mitchell's trademark curiosity, respect and graveyard humour fuel these magical essays.
Written between 1943 and 1965, Up in the Old Hotel ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099561590
SKU
V9780099561590
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99-99
About Joseph Mitchell
Joseph Mitchell was born near Iona, North Carolina, in 1908, and came to New York City in 1929, when he was twenty-one years old. He eventually found a job as an apprentice crime reporter for The World. He also worked as a reporter and features writer at The Herald Tribune and The World-Telegram before landing at The New Yorker in ... Read more
Reviews for Up in the Old Hotel
This is a book about New York as it was a long time ago… Mitchell is interested in the texture of the city. He loves the cops and bums and old Italian restaurants. After a while you really feel engrained in the place yourself
William Leith
Evening Standard
Swift, razor-sharp characterisation, narrative suspense and the sparest, yet ... Read more
William Leith
Evening Standard
Swift, razor-sharp characterisation, narrative suspense and the sparest, yet ... Read more