Joseph Mitchell

Up in the Old Hotel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 131mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780099561590
• Artikelnr.: 35246717

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by David Remnick
Author’s Note
 
McSORLEY’S WONDERFUL SALOON
 
I
The Old House at Home
Mazie
Hit on the Head with a Cow
Professor Sea Gull
A Spism and a Spasm
Lady Olga
Evening with a Gifted Child6
A Sporting Man
The Cave Dwellers
King of the Gypsies
The Gypsy Women
The Deaf-Mutes Club
Santa Claus Smith
The Don’t-Swear Man
Obituary of a Gin Mill
Houdini’s Picnic
The Mohawks in High Steel
All You Can Hold for Five Bucks
A Mess of Clams
The Same as Monkey Glands
 
II
 
Goodbye, Shirley Temple
On the Wagon
The Kind Old Blonde
I Couldn’t Dope It Out
 
III
 
The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County
I Blame It All on Mamma
Uncle Dockery and the Independent Bull
 
OLD MR. FLOOD
 
Old Mr. Flood
The Black Clams
Mr. Flood’s Party
 
THE BOTTOM OF THE HARBOR
 
Up in the Old Hotel
The Bottom of the Harbor
The Rats on the Waterfront
Mr. Hunter’s Grave
Dragger Captain
The Rivermen
 
JOE GOULD’S SECRET