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Joe Gould's secret / Joseph Mitchell

By:

Mitchell, Joseph, (, 1908-1996)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : The Modern Library , 1996, c1964.Description: 186 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0679602585

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 GOU

Summary: Joe Gould was an odd and penniless and unemployable little man who came to the city in 1916 and ducked and dodged and held on as hard as he could for over thirty-five years. At the time Mitchell met him, Gould, a Harvard educated member of the oldest families in Massachusetts, was writing the longest book in the world-about a dozen times as long as the Bible, according to Gould-entitled, "An oral history of our time." It is Mitchell's quest for the Oral History, handwritten by Gould in stained and spattered notebooks, that is at the heart of this fascinating investigation-an investigation that ultimately leads to Joe Gould's secret.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 GOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016362

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Includes the author's "Professor Sea Gull" and "Joe Gould's secret" which were published as Profiles in the New Yorker, Dec. 12, 1942, and Sept. 19 and 26, 1964, respectively.

Joe Gould was an odd and penniless and unemployable little man who came to the city in 1916 and ducked and dodged and held on as hard as he could for over thirty-five years. At the time Mitchell met him, Gould, a Harvard educated member of the oldest families in Massachusetts, was writing the longest book in the world-about a dozen times as long as the Bible, according to Gould-entitled, "An oral history of our time." It is Mitchell's quest for the Oral History, handwritten by Gould in stained and spattered notebooks, that is at the heart of this fascinating investigation-an investigation that ultimately leads to Joe Gould's secret.

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