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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b12149676.
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "The 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.".
- catalog extent "xi, 370 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "McSorley's wonderful saloon.".
- catalog identifier "0375421025".
- catalog isFormatOf "McSorley's wonderful saloon.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog relation "McSorley's wonderful saloon.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Bars (Drinking establishments) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Eccentrics and eccentricities Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3525.I9714 M37 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "The 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.".
- catalog title "McSorley's wonderful saloon / Joseph Mitchell ; foreword by Calvin Trillin.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Picaresque literature. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".