The Bottom Of The Harbor - Softcover

Mitchell, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009928474X ISBN 13: 9780099284741

Publisher: Vintage, 2001

Synopsis

After Joe Gould's Secret - 'a miniature masterpiece of a shaggy dog story' (Observer) - here is another collection of stories by Joseph Mitchell, each connected in one way or another with the waterfront of New York City. As William Fiennes wrote in the London Review of Books, 'Mitchell was the laureate of the waters around New York', and in The Bottom of the Harbor he records the lives and practices of the rivermen, with love and understanding and a sharp eye for the eccentric and strange. This is some of the best journalist ever written.

About this title

Review:

"Swift, razor-sharp characterisation, narrative suspense and the sparest, yet most penetrating description." (Evening Standard)

"The finest staff writer in the history of the New Yorker and one of the greatest journalists America has produced." (Times Literary Supplement)

"A superb volume of essays." (Sunday Tribune)

About the Author:

\Joseph Mitchell came to New York from North Carolina the day after the 1929 stock market crash. After eight years as a reporter and feature writer at various newspapers, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he remained until his death in 1996 at the age of eighty-seven. His other books include McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, My Ears Are Bent, Up in the Old Hotel, Old Mr. Flood, and Joe Gould's Secret.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 009928474X
• ISBN 13: 9780099284741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320