Joe Gould's secret
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Published
New York : The Modern Library, 1996.
Format
Book
Edition
1996 Modern Library edition.
ISBN
0679601848, 9780679601845, 0679603395, 9780679603399
Physical Desc
vii, 186 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Providence Public - Level 2 Book Stacks | 920 M681j | On Shelf |
Warwick Public - Adult Non-Fiction | CT 9991 G6 M5 1996 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : The Modern Library, 1996.
Edition
1996 Modern Library edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0679601848, 9780679601845, 0679603395, 9780679603399
Notes
General Note
"Illustrations by Saul Steinberg"--Back of title page.
General Note
Includes Professor Sea Gull (pages [1]-33).
Description
"Joseph Ferdinand Gould - better known as Joe Gould - was a member of one of the oldest families in Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard, and his parents took it for granted that he would go on to medical school and become a surgeon and a distinguished civic leader, as many of his ancestors, including his father and grandfather, had been. Instead, in 1916, in his middle twenties, he abruptly broke with his background and came to New York City and spent the next forty years living from hand to mouth in Greenwich Village as a kind of half outcast half bohemian hero. He said that he lived this way so that he could wander around the city at will listening to people and writing down some of the astonishing things he heard them say. He had become obsessed with the idea that talk is history and that even offhand remarks may have an eerie and prophetic historical import. He wrote in dime-store composition books, filling hundreds of them, and said that these books when eventually joined together would become an enormous book (a dozen times longer than the Bible, he estimated) that would be called An Oral History of Our Time. (Historians at Columbia University have given Gould credit for originating the term "oral history.")"--BOOK JACKET. "In 1942, Joseph Mitchell, impressed by Gould's concept, wrote a Profile of him for The New Yorker. Twenty-two years later, some time after Gould's death, he wrote another Profile of him and the two have been combined in Joe Gould's Secret."--BOOK JACKET.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mitchell, J., Steinberg, S., & Mitchell, J. (1996). Joe Gould's secret (1996 Modern Library edition.). The Modern Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mitchell, Joseph, 1908-1996, Saul, Steinberg and Joseph Mitchell. 1996. Joe Gould's Secret. The Modern Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mitchell, Joseph, 1908-1996, Saul, Steinberg and Joseph Mitchell. Joe Gould's Secret The Modern Library, 1996.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mitchell, Joseph, Saul Steinberg, and Joseph Mitchell. Joe Gould's Secret 1996 Modern Library edition., The Modern Library, 1996.
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