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Name: Up in the Old Hotel

Author: Joseph Mitchell
Year: 1992
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Genres/categories:
Non Fiction, Short Stories, History, Essays

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ISBNs:
9780679746317
0679746315

Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old "seafoodetarian" who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for
and in four books -
,
,
, and
- that are still renowned for their precise, respectful observation, their graveyard humor, and their offhand perfection of style.These masterpieces (along with several previously uncollected stories) are available in one volume, which presents an indelible collective portrait of an unsuspected New York and its odder citizens - as depicted by one of the great writers of this or any other time.