Up in the Old Hotel av Joseph Mitchell

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<p>''The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling'' Ian McEwan<br><br>Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. 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. <br><br>Written between 1943 and 1965, <i>Up in the Old Hotel</i> is the complete collection of Joseph Mitchell ''s<i> New Yorker </i>journalism and includes <i>McSorley''s Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr Flood, The Bottom of the Harbour</i> and <i>Joe Gould''s Secret</i>. <br><br><br>''Joseph Mitchell is buried treasure'' Salman Rushdie</p>