McSorley's wonderful saloon
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Publication
2001 - Pantheon Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
92,500 words, Guess
Page Count
370 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemcsorleyswonderf0000mitc
- ISBN-100375421025
- ISBN-139780375421020
- Goodreads210784
- Library of Congress Control Number00051058
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number45172053
- Open LibraryOL6789988M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3525.I9714 M37 2001
Description
New Yorker essayist Mitchell likes to start with an unimportant hero, but collects all the facts, arranges them to give the desired effects, and usually ends by describing the customs of a community. 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 present him as anything more than a barroom scrounger; but in telling his story, he also gives a picture of New York sporting life. "King of the Gypsies" sets out to describe the spokesman of 38 gypsy families, but it soon becomes a Gibbon's decline and fall of the American gypsies; and it ends with an apocalyptic vision that is not only comic but also more imaginative than recent novels. Reading some of his portraits a second time, you catch an emotion beneath them that resembles Dickens'.--From Malcolm Cowley, The New Republic.
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