My Ears Are Bent - Softcover

Mitchell, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375726306 ISBN 13: 9780375726309

Verlag: Vintage, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Mitchell Joseph

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Críticas:

"My Ears Are Bent sparkles with laughter and exuberance."
--Los Angeles Times

"This reporter, prose stylist and observer of life remains that vanished world's Scheherezade."
--The Washington Post

"These stories, the tales of the people he has talked to in the course of his wanderings about New York, are done with a sharp eye for the revealing detail, and in a prose that is casual, but tough."
--Stanley Walker, The Herald Tribune

"Delicacies from the first nine years of Mitchell's career."
--Entertainment Weekly

Reseña del editor:

Famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, as a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happened to be a countess. Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fish market, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods, and storefront churches. Whether he wrote about a singing first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers or a nudist who does a reverse striptease, Mitchell brilliantly illuminated the humanity in the oddest New Yorkers.

 

These pieces, written primarily for The World-Telegram and The Herald Tribune, highlight his abundant gifts of empathy and observation, and give us the full-bodied picture of the famed New Yorker writer Mitchell would become.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0375726306
• ISBN 13: 9780375726309
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320