This Place on Third Avenue
Author: Mcnulty, John
ISBN: 9781582432137
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 09 May 2002
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A collection of hilarious, poignant, and eternal stories by the acclaimed i>New Yorker/i> 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./b>br>br>From 1937 until his death in 1956, John McNulty walked many beats for i>The New Yorker/i>, 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.br>br>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".br>br>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 i>This Place on Third Avenue/i>, that shelf grows one book longer.
ISBN: 9781582432137
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 09 May 2002
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A collection of hilarious, poignant, and eternal stories by the acclaimed i>New Yorker/i> 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./b>br>br>From 1937 until his death in 1956, John McNulty walked many beats for i>The New Yorker/i>, 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.br>br>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".br>br>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 i>This Place on Third Avenue/i>, that shelf grows one book longer.
