This item: Old Mr. Flood. by Joseph Mitchell Paperback. $ Only 10 left in stock - order soon. Ships from and sold by Yr_Satisfaction_Guaranteed. $ shipping. My Ears Are Bent. by Joseph Mitchell Paperback. $Cited by: 1. Originally published in the mids, Old Mr. Flood is Joseph Mitchell’s story of retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood, a New Yorker determined to live to the age of on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air, and good Scotch/5(22). Old Mr. Flood is about retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood who plans to live to years old on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air and the occasional Scotch whiskey in famed New Yorker scribe Author: Joseph Mitchell.
I was rereading Old Mr. Flood, Joseph Mitchell's "stories of fish-eating, whiskey, death, and rebirth," when my oldest son called to say he and his girlfriend were visiting City Island in the Bronx, a small-town outpost at the western end of Long Island sound. These events resolved like a satisfying chord as Mitchell's book is a composite portrait of an ancient habitué of lower. Mitchell's trademark curiosity, respect and graveyard humour fuel these magical essays. Written between and , Up in the Old Hotel is the complete collection of Joseph Mitchell 's New Yorker journalism and includes McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr Flood, The Bottom of the Harbour and Joe Gould's Secret. One of the best chroniclers of New York, Joseph Mitchell, a transplanted North Carolinian wrote for The New Yorker from the late '30s through the early '60s. Mitchell specialized in people and institutions at the margins of society. Old Mr. Flood is about retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood who plans to live to years old on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air and the occasional Scotch.
Originally published in the mids, Old Mr. Flood is Joseph Mitchell’s story of retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood, a New Yorker determined to live to the age Free shipping over $ Buy a cheap copy of Old Mr. Flood book by Joseph Mitchell. Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker specialized in people and institutions at the margins of society. Old Mr. Flood is his story about a retired house wrecker who plans to live to years old on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air and the occasional Scotch whiskey. Originally published in the mids, Old Mr. Flood is Joseph Mitchell’s story of retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood, a New Yorker determined to live to the age of on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air, and good Scotch.
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