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Joe Gould’s Secret

$20.00

Joe Gould’s Secret

SKU: 9781784875619 Category: Product ID: 9956

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Title: Joe Gould’s Secret
Author: MITCHELL JOSEPH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/10/2019
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active

‘It’s a masterpiece, of course, but more than that it shows that there is some such thing as being a simple observer’ Nicci French, Independent

It was 1932 when Joseph Mitchell first came across Joe Gould, a Harvard-educated vagrant of Greenwich Village. Penniless, filthy, scurrilous, charming, thieving, Joe Gould was widely considered a genius. He was working on a book he called an Oral History – the longest book ever written he claimed, formed of recorded conversations set down in exercise books. Of course, when Gould died the great epic was nowhere to be found.

This compelling portrait of a true New York eccentric, a man who embodied the disconnected, delusional nature of real life, was Mitchell’s personal enquiry into the agony of writer’s block.

ISBN: 9781784875619
Pages: 208