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Up in the Old Hotel
Contributor(s): Mitchell, Joseph (Author)
ISBN: 0679746315     ISBN-13: 9780679746317
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $19.80  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 1993
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Annotation: Mitchell explored a New York City that has now vanished in his four books and his classic reportage for The New Yorker. Mitchell's eccentrics live again in this omnibus volume that contains all of his books and several previously uncollected stories.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 92050835
Physical Information: 1.26" H x 5.28" W x 8.06" (1.16 lbs) 736 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
 
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Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old "seafoodetarian" who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for The New Yorker and in four books--McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould's Secret--that are still renowned for their precise, respectful observation, their graveyard humor, and their offhand perfection of style.

These masterpieces (along with several previously uncollected stories) are available in one volume, which presents an indelible collective portrait of an unsuspected New York and its odder citizens--as depicted by one of the great writers of this or any other time.