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Old Mr. Flood

Book ID
107899848
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
360 KB
Category
Standards
ISBN-13
9781596921146

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✦ Synopsis

An unforgettable character in these stories of fish-eating, whiskey, death, and rebirth by combining aspects of several men who worked at or frequented Manhattan's famed Fulton Fish Market along the East River.

Originally published in the mid-1940s, Old Mr. Flood is Joseph Mitchell's story of retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood, a New Yorker determined to live to the age of 115 on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air, and good Scotch. Mitchell created an unforgettable character in these stories of fish-eating, whiskey, death, and rebirth by combining aspects of several men who worked at or frequented Manhattan's famed Fulton Fish Market along the East River.

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