This Place on Third Avenue

by McNulty, John; McNulty, Faith

• ISBN13: 9781582431178
• ISBN10: 1582431175
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

Collected and restored to print at last are moving, lowlife sketches by a writer for "The New Yorker", a man whose "phenomenal ear caught the common parlance of New York in all its uncommonness". Includes a memoir by Faith McNulty.

Table of Contents

John as he was
This place on Third Avenue	p. 3
Some nights when nothing happens are the best nights in this place	p. 4
Two bums here would spend freely except for poverty	p. 13
Barkeep won't let anybody at all shove this handyman around	p. 18
They don't seem to be talking to Grogan	p. 27
A man like Grady, you got to know him first	p. 33
Man here keeps getting arrested all the time	p. 42
The Slugger comes into his own	p. 50
Event if it's Mexico nothing flashy ever happens to Grogan	p. 60
Bartender here takes dislike to "Deep in the Heart of Texas"	p. 68
Don't scrub off these names	p. 72
They'd have taken him if he was only a torso	p. 85
A man's going into the Army what can you do about it?	p. 94
Argument outside a gin mill here	p. 107
Peether is full of blather	p. 110
Atheist hit by truck	p. 116
People don't seem to think things out straight in this gin mill	p. 119
Third Avenue medicine	p. 126
Hands no good	p. 130
You can't tell how you'll get clobbered	p. 134
The television helps, but not very much	p. 138
This lady was a Bostonian they call them	p. 147
He should have left him have it anyway	p. 151
It's hard to figure how they know	p. 155
Cluney McFarrar's hardtack	p. 161
The fight in the hallway	p. 167
An old college chum	p. 178
Tell him what happen, Joe, see will be believe you	p. 184
Notes	p. 191
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