The articles Mitchell wrote for The New Yorker in the 1940s and
1950s established him as the finest staff writer in the history of
the magazine and one of the greatest journalists America has
produced. The six stories in this collection, all concerned with
the lives of the people who worked and lived on the New York
waterfront, break all the accepted rules of how journalists should
write. The impeccable sentences unwind themselves at a leisurely
pace and the significance of the story Mitchell wants to tell is
couched in subtle symbolism. The best story in this book, "Mr
Hunter's Grave", needs only the slightest tweak and bluff to turn
it into a short story of the highest order. Mitchell shines a
torchlight into places we rarely dare to look-the bottom of the
harbour; the darkest recesses of the soul. (Kirkus UK)
After Joe Gould's Secret - 'a miniature masterpiece of a shaggy dog story' (Observer) - here is another collection of stories by Joseph Mitchell, each connected in one way or another with the waterfront of New York City. As William Fiennes wrote in the London Review of Books, 'Mitchell was the laureate of the waters around New York', and in The Bottom of the Harbor he records the lives and practices of the rivermen, with love and understanding and a sharp eye for the eccentric and strange.
This is some of the best journalist ever written.
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