{"product_id":"this-place-on-third-avenue-isbn-9781582432137","title":"This Place on Third Avenue","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of hilarious, poignant, and eternal stories by the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writer captures the off-beat, quirky, and amusing characters that he encountered at Tim and Joe Costello's Irish Saloon, from cab drivers, horseplayers, and glamour girls, to has-beens, never-weres, and dreamers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1937 until his death in 1956, John McNulty walked many beats for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, but his favorite--and the one he made famous--was Tim and Joe Costello's a bustling Irish saloon at Third Avenue and Forty-fourth Street. The place is gone now, it was leveled and replaced by the lobby of a skyscraper in 1973, but it and its hard-drinking mid-century patrons live on in these funny, poignant, immortal sketches and stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcNulty's people are drawn from life, and draw the breath of life. \"What a marvelous writer McNulty was!\" said Brendan Gill when they tore down Costello's. \"His stories will survive . . . and perhaps seem all the more remarkable to a later generation for the reason that both the time and the place they celebrated have disappeared without a trace--brick and stone as thoroughly ground to dust as man\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a short shelf of American classics born in the talk of ordinary folk--Mark Twain's sketches, Ring Lardner's baseball yarns, Studs Terkel's Chicago, and Joseph Mitchell's reports from the waterfront. With \u003ci\u003eThis Place on Third Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e, that shelf grows one book longer.\u003cb\u003eJohn McNulty\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Massachusetts, soldiered in Europe, marked time in Columbus, flourished in Manhattan, and died on his farm in Wakefield, Rhode Island.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303606276325,"sku":"NP9781582432137","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582432137.jpg?v=1767742517","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/this-place-on-third-avenue-isbn-9781582432137","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}