Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories.

Mitchell, Joseph.

ISBN 10: 0679412638 / ISBN 13: 9780679412632

Published by Pantheon Books, 1992

About this Item

A Fine tight unread copy in gray paper wraps. This advance copy of this collection of Mitchell's writings includes McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, The Bottom of the Harbor, Old Mr. Flood, Joe Gould's Secret, and seven fictional pieces. All of the works were first published in The New Yorker. In addition to the contents of the four published books, Mitchell has included. Many of the stories included here, but not included in Mitchell's published books, have never before been reprinted until now. Seller Inventory # 23248

Bibliographic Details

Title: Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories.

Publisher: Pantheon Books

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Waterfront workers, people on the Bowery, Mohawk Indians working on high structural steel, gypsies, itinerant preachers, and others provide the necessary color for the literary portraits collected in a commemorative tribute to The New Yorker's Joseph Mitchell.

Review:

"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)