An edition of The bottom of the harbor (1959)

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An edition of The bottom of the harbor (1959)

The bottom of the harbor

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On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he introduces, every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics and eccentricities of his beloved adopted city.All of the pieces here are connected in one way or another--some directly, some with a kind of mysterious circuitousness--to New York's fabled waterfront, the terrain that Mitchell brilliantly made his own. They tell of a life that has passed--of vacant hotel rooms, deserted communities, once-thriving fishing areas that are now polluted and studded with wrecks. Included are "Up in the Old Hotel," a portrait of Louis Morino, the proprietor of a restaurant called (to his disgust) Sloppy Louie's; "The Rats on the Waterfront," which has inspired countless writers to attempt portraits of these most demonized New Yorkers; and "Mr. Hunter's Grave," widely considered to be the finest single piece of nonfiction to have ever appeared in the pages of The New Yorker.Here is the essential work of a legendary writer.From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Pages
243

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1959, Little, Brown
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Boston

Edition Notes

These six stories first appeared in the New Yorker between 1944 and 1959.--Cf. Author's note.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
917.471
Library of Congress
F128.63 .M5

The Physical Object

Pagination
243 p. ;
Number of pages
243

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5794755M
Internet Archive
bottomofharbor00mitc
LCCN
60006523
OCLC/WorldCat
1550807, 505736539
Library Thing
64602

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