The Bottom Of The Harbor

After Joe Gould's Secret - 'a miniature masterpiece of a shaggy dog story' (Observer) - here is another collection of stories by Joseph Mitchell each connected in one way or another with the waterfront of New York City. As William Fiennes wrote in the London Review of Books 'Mitchell was the laureate of the waters around New York' and in The Bottom of the Harbor he records the lives and practices of the rivermen with love and understanding and a sharp eye for the eccentric and strange. This is some of the best journalist ever written.

About the author

Joseph Mitchell was born near Iona, North Carolina, in 1908, and came to New York City in 1929, when he was twenty-one years old. He eventually found a job as an apprentice crime reporter for The World. He also worked as a reporter and features writer at The Herald Tribune and The World-Telegram before landing at The New Yorker in 1938. "Joe Gould's Secret," which appeared on September 26th 1964, was the last piece Mitchell ever published. He went into work at The New Yorker almost every day for the next thirty-one years and six months but submitted no further writing.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Mitchell, Mitchell Joseph
• Publisher: Vintage
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2001
• EAN: 9780099284741
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928474-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 383 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; New York, HISTORY / Military / Naval, TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History, maritime history, Reportage & collected journalism, Literary essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Reportage, journalism or collected columns