9780679746317
Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories
Joseph Mitchell
ISBN 13: 9780679746317
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Softcover
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Mitchell explored a New York City that has now vanished in his four books and his classic reportage for The New Yorker. Mitchell's eccentrics live again in this omnibus volume that contains all of his books and several previously uncollected stories.
Review:
"[A] welcome one-volume collection of Mitchell's collected works...His richly specific, levelly related sketches of gypsy swindlers, waterfront rat exterminators are still funny, fluid, authoritative, tangy and affecting."
Roy Blount, Atlantic Monthly, 5/92
Review:"[O]f Mr. Mitchell's characters--the bar owners, the Bowery preachers, the gypsies, the oystermen--you must say that he is the occasion for their prose....Mr. Mitchell's art is to elicit history from an enormous range of people, and then to cause their words to fall into a shape that gives the reader none of the agony the unreconstructed reveries of these long-winded men might have done."
Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Times Book Review, 08/16/1992
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