McSorley's Wonderful Saloon - Hardcover

Mitchell, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375421025 ISBN 13: 9780375421020

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Mitchell Joseph

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A new edition of Mitchell's most famous work, first published in 1943, captures the lives, eccentricities, and idiosyncracies of the owners and customers of McSorley's, one of the oldest saloon's in New York City. 12,500 first printing.

Nota de la solapa:

0;Mitchell’s collection of portraits is the exact opposite of the books that choose an important subject, but are hastily written and have nothing much to say. These books, which form the bulk of current writing, always make you feel as if you had paid for looking into the wrong end of a telescope. Mitchell, on the other hand, likes to start with an unimportant hero, but he collects all the facts about him, arranges them to give the desired effects, and usually ends by describing the customs of a whole community. Commodore Dutch, the subject of one portrait, ‘is a brassy little man who has made a living for the last forty years by giving an annual ball for the benefit of himself.’ Mitchell doesn’t try to present him as anything more than a barroom scrounger; but in telling the story of his career, he also gives a picture of New York sporting life since the days of Big Tim Sullivan. The story called ‘King of the Gypsies’ is even better. It sets out to describe Cockey

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375421025
• ISBN 13: 9780375421020
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 370