Title:
Up in the old hotel : and other stories
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Edition:
Vintage Books edition.
Publication Date:
2008
1992
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 2008.
©1992
Physical Description:
xix, 716 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780679746317
Abstract:
A collection of literary portraits looks at waterfront workers, people on the Bowery, Mohawk Indians working on high structural steel, gypsies, itinerant preachers, and others.
General Note:
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1992."--Title page verso.
"The stories in this book were originally published in a somewhat different form in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
McSorley's wonderful saloon. The old house at home ; Mazie ; Hit on the head with cow ; Professor sea gull ; A spism and a spasm ; Lady Olga ; Evening with a gifted child ; A sporting man ; The cave dwellers ; King of the gypsies ; The gypsy women ; The deaf-mutes club ; Santa claus Smith ; The don't swear man ; Obituary of a gin mill ; Houdini's picnic ; The Mohawks in high steel ; All you can hold for five bucks ; A mess of clams ; The same as monkeys glands ; Goodbye, Shirley Temple ; On the wagon ; The kind old blonde ; I couldn't dope it our ; The downfall of fascism in Black Ankle County ; I blame it all on mamma ; Uncle Dockery and the independent bull -- Old Mr. Flood. Old Mr. Flood ; The black clams ; Mr. Flood's party -- The bottom of the harbor. Up in the old hotel ; The bottom of the harbor ; The rats on the waterfront ; Mr. Hunter's grave ; Dragger captain ; The rivermen -- Joe Gould's secret.
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Language:
English
