Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell

Name: Up in the Old Hotel By Joseph Mitchell
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Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

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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.

Up in the Old Hotel Summary

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

'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 is 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.

'Joseph Mitchell is buried treasure' Salman Rushdie

Up in the Old Hotel Reviews

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 most penetrating description * Evening Standard *
One of the greatest journalists America has produced * Times Literary Supplement *
What James Joyce might have written had he gone into journalism * Newsweek *
A poet of the waterfront and a writer of surpassing tales that captured the unsung and unconventional life of New York and its denizens * Independent *

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 1938. Joe Gould's Secret, which appeared on September 26th 1964, was the last piece Mitchell ever published. He went into work at The New Yorker almost every day for the next thirty-one years and six months but submitted no further writing.

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Sku

GOR010313748

ISBN 13

9780099561590

ISBN 10

009956159X

Title

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

Author

Joseph Mitchell

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20120705

Number of pages

736

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N/A

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Note

The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins