Up in the old hotel and other stories

McSorley's wonderful saloon 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 child -- A sporting man -- The cave dwellers -- King of the Gypsies -- The Gypsy women -- The deaf-mutes club -- Santa Clau...

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1. Verfasser:	Mitchell, Joseph (VerfasserIn)
Format:	UnknownFormat
Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	New York Pantheon Books 1992
Schlagworte:	Short stories > New York (N.Y.) / Fiction / Social life and customs
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Zusammenfassung:	McSorley's wonderful saloon 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 child -- 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 -- Goodbye, Shirley Temple -- On the wagon -- The kind old blonde -- I couldn't dope it out -- The downfall of fascism in Black Ankle County -- I blame it all on Mama -- 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 Riverman -- Joe Gould's secret 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. Up in the Old Hotel had its beginnings in the nineteen-thirties, in the hopelessness of the early days of the Great Depression, when Joseph Mitchell, at that time a young newspaper reporter in New York City, gradually became aware that the people be respected the most and got the most pleasure out of interviewing were really pretty strange. "Among them," he once wrote, were 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."
Beschreibung:	XIII, 718 S.
ISBN:	0679412638 0-679-41263-8