Joe Gould's Secret Paperback - 1999
by Joseph Mitchell
Joe Gould may have been the quintessential Greenwich Village bohemian in 1916 while he wrote "An Oral History of Our Time." His life story, "Jay Gould's Secret, " is now a major motion picture directed by Stanley Tucci and starring Ian Holm, Hope Davis, Isabella Rossellini, and Glenn Close.
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Joe Gould is a blithe and emaciated little man who has been a notable in the cafeterias, diners, barrooms, and dumps of Greenwich Village for a quarter of a century.
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Now a major motion picture starring Ian Holm, Hope Davis, and Stanley Tucci, who also directs.
Joseph Mitchell was a legendary New Yorker writer and the author of the national bestseller Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces appeared. What Joseph Mitchell wrote about, principally, was New York. In Joe Gould, Mitchell found the perfect subject. And Joe Gould's Secret has become a legendary piece of New York history.
Joe Gould may have been the quintessential Greenwich Village bohemian. In 1916, he left behind patrician roots for a scrappy, hand-to-mouth existence: he wore ragtag clothes, slept in Bowery flophouses, and mooched food, drinks, and money off of friends and strangers. Thus he was able to devote his energies to writing "An Oral History of Our Time," which Gould said would constitute "the informal history of the shirt-sleeved multitude." But when Joe Gould died in 1957, the manuscript could not be found. Where had he hidden it? This is Joe Gould's Secret.
"[Mitchell is] one of our finest journalists."--Dawn Powell, "The Washington Post
"What people say is history--Joe Gould was right about that-- and history, when recorded by Mitchell, is literature."--"The New Criterion
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- Title Joe Gould's Secret
- Author Joseph Mitchell
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Third Printing
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date December 7, 1999
- ISBN 9780375708046 / 0375708049
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.56 x 5.62 x 0.57 in (21.74 x 14.27 x 1.45 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Gould, Joe
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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