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100 1 $aMitchell, Joseph,$d1908-1996.
245 10 $aMcSorley's wonderful saloon /$cJoseph Mitchell ; foreword by Calvin Trillin.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c©2001.
300 $axi, 370 pages ;$c25 cm
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505 0 $aThe old house at home -- Mazie -- Hit on the head with a cow -- Professor Sea Gull -- A spism and a spasm -- Lady Olha -- Evening with a gifted child -- A sporting man -- The cave dwellers -- King of the gypies -- 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 monkey glands -- Goodby, Shirley Temple -- On the wagon -- The kind old blonde -- I culdn't dope it out -- The downfall of fascism in Black Ankle County -- I blame it all on Mama -- Uncle Dockery and the independent bull.
520 $aNew 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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651 7 $aNew York (State)$zNew York.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204333
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aMitchell, Joseph, 1908-1996.$tMcSorley's wonderful saloon.$dNew York : Pantheon Books, ©2001$w(OCoLC)606554892
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