{"product_id":"joe-goulds-secret-9781784875619","title":"Joe Gould's Secret","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘It's a masterpiece, of course, but more than that it shows that there is some such thing as being a simple observer’ Nicci French, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was 1932 when Joseph Mitchell first came across Joe Gould, a Harvard-educated vagrant of Greenwich Village. Penniless, filthy, scurrilous, charming, thieving, Joe Gould was widely considered a genius. He was working on a book he called an Oral History – the longest book ever written he claimed, formed of recorded conversations set down in exercise books. Of course, when Gould died the great epic was nowhere to be found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis compelling portrait of a true New York eccentric, a man who embodied the disconnected, delusional nature of real life, was Mitchell’s personal enquiry into the agony of writer’s block.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoe Gould's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e can be found in the longer collection of Mitchell's writing \u003ci\u003eUp in the Old Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy does the book mean so much to us? It's a masterpiece, of course, but more than that it shows that there is some such thing as being a simple observer -- Nicci French * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eA little masterpiece of observation and storytelling * Ian McEwan *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020440535383,"sku":"9781784875619","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781784875619.jpg?v=1750783434","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/joe-goulds-secret-9781784875619","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}