Автор: Mitchell, Joseph
Название: Bottom Of The Harbor
ISBN: 009928474X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099284741
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: A collection of tales, each connected with the waterfront of New York City and recording the lives and practices of the rivermen with affection and understanding, and with a sharp eye for the eccentric.

Автор: Mitchell Joseph
Название: Up in the Old Hotel
ISBN: 009956159X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099561590
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink saloons, all-night restaurants, the `visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the end-is-near street preachers, old Gypsy Kings and old Gypsy Queens, and out-and-out freak-show freaks.` Mitchell`s trademark curiosity, respect and graveyard humour fuel these magical essays.

Автор: Mitchell, Joseph
Название: Joe Gould`s Secret
ISBN: 0099772310 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099772316
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Joe Gould was a member of one of the oldest families in Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard. Instead of becoming a surgeon and civic leader, he moved to New York City, and spent the next 40 years living on the streets of Greenwich Village as a kind of outcast Bohemian hero. This is his story.

Автор: Mitchell, Joseph
Название: My Ears Are Bent
ISBN: 0375726306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375726309
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 849 р.
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Автор: Mitchell, Joseph
Название: The Bottom of the Harbor
ISBN: 0375714863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375714863
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1399 р.
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Автор: Mitchell, Joseph
Название: My Ears Are Bent
ISBN: 0375421033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375421037
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1460 р.
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Автор: Mitchell, Joseph
Название: McSorley`s Wonderful Saloon
ISBN: 0375421025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375421020
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1640 р.
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Автор: Kunkel Thomas
Название: Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker
ISBN: 0375508902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375508905
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1825 р.
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Описание: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY"SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE"AND "PUBLISHERS WEEKLY" This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary" New Yorker" profile writer author of "Joe Gould s Secret" and "Up in the Old Hotel" and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history s greatest disappearing acts.
Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph Mitchell was Southern to the core. But from the 1930s to the 1960s, he was "the" voice of New York City. Readers of "The New Yorker "cherished his intimate sketches of the people who made the city tick from Mohawk steelworkers to Staten Island oystermen, from homeless intellectual Joe Gould to Old John McSorley, founder of the city s most famous saloon. Mitchell s literary sensibility combined with a journalistic eye for detail produced a writing style that would inspire New Journalism luminaries such as Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion.
Then, all of a sudden, his stories stopped appearing. For thirty years, Mitchell showed up for work at "The New Yorker, " but he produced . . . nothing. Did he have something new and exciting in store? Was he working on a major project? Or was he bedeviled by an epic case of writer s block?
The first full-length biography of Joseph Mitchell, based on the thousands of archival pages he left behind and dozens of interviews, "Man in Profile" pieces together the life of this beloved and enigmatic literary legend and answers the question that has plagued readers and critics for decades: What was Joe Mitchell "doing" all those years?
By the time of his death in 1996, Mitchell was less well known for his elegant writing than for his J. D. Salinger like retreat from the public eye. For thirty years, Mitchell had wandered the streets of New York, chronicling the lives of everyday people and publishing them in the most prestigious publication in town. But by the 1970s, crime, homelessness, and a crumbling infrastructure had transformed the city Mitchell understood so well and spoke for so articulately. He could barely recognize it. As he said to a friend late in life, I m living in a state of confusion.
Fifty years after his last story appeared, and almost two decades after his death, Joseph Mitchell still has legions of fans, and his story especially the mystery of his disappearance continues to fascinate. With a colorful cast of characters that includes Harold Ross, A. J. Liebling, Tina Brown, James Thurber, and William Shawn, "Man in Profile" goes a long way to solving that mystery and bringing this lion of American journalism out of the shadows that once threatened to swallow him.
Praise for "Man in Profile"
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An] authoritative new biography about] our greatest literary journalist . . . Kunkel is the ideal biographer of Joseph Mitchell: As . . . a writer and craftsman worthy of his subject. Blake Bailey, "The New York Times Book Review "(Editor s Choice)
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Arichly persuasive portrait of a man who cared about everybody and everything. "London Review of Books
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Mitchell s life and achievements are brought vividly alive in this] splendid book. "Chicago Tribune"
A thoughtful and sympathetic new biography. Ruth Franklin, "The Atlantic"
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Excellent . . . A first-rate Mitchell biography was very much in order. "The Wall Street Journal""