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Up in the Old Hotel
Up in the Old Hotel
Author: Joseph Mitchell
"The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous...A masterpiece of observation and storytelling". (Ian McEwan). Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses, nickel-a-drink saloons, all-night restaura...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780099561590
ISBN-10: 009956159X
Publication Date: 7/5/2012
Pages: 736
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Publisher: Vintage Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 3
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People in a hotel as portrayed by one of the great writers of this time.
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Wonderful, huge collection of stories of some of the most interesting and odd real-life characters. New Yorker stories from another era- NY neighborhoods and businesses were almost like a small town.
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