This Place on Third Avenue

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John Mcnulty, Morris Engel

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Counterpoint
09 May 2002

Literary essays; Short stories

A collection of hilarious, poignant, and eternal stories by the acclaimed New Yorker writer captures the off-beat, quirky, and amusing characters that he encountered at Tim and Joe Costello's Irish Saloon, from cab drivers, horseplayers, and glamour girls, to has-beens, never-weres, and dreamers.

From 1937 until his death in 1956, John McNulty walked many beats for The New Yorker, but his favorite--and the one he made famous--was Tim and Joe Costello's a bustling Irish saloon at Third Avenue and Forty-fourth Street. The place is gone now, it was leveled and replaced by the lobby of a skyscraper in 1973, but it and its hard-drinking mid-century patrons live on in these funny, poignant, immortal sketches and stories.

McNulty's people are drawn from life, and draw the breath of life. ""What a marvelous writer McNulty was!"" said Brendan Gill when they tore down Costello's. ""His stories will survive . . . and perhaps seem all the more remarkable to a later generation for the reason that both the time and the place they celebrated have disappeared without a trace--brick and stone as thoroughly ground to dust as man"".

There is a short shelf of American classics born in the talk of ordinary folk--Mark Twain's sketches, Ring Lardner's baseball yarns, Studs Terkel's Chicago, and Joseph Mitchell's reports from the waterfront. With This Place on Third Avenue, that shelf grows one book longer.

By: John Mcnulty
Photographs by: Morris Engel
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 183g
ISBN: 9781582432137
ISBN 10: 1582432139
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 09 May 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John McNulty grew up in Massachusetts, soldiered in Europe, marked time in Columbus, flourished in Manhattan, and died on his farm in Wakefield, Rhode Island.

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