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In a fictional portrait of the quintessential old-time New Yorker, retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood is determined to live to be 115 years old on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air, and the occasional good scotch.
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Retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood is dead set and determined to live to be 115 years old on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air, and the occasional good Scotch in renowned New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell's fictionalized portrait of a quintessential old-time New Yorker.Originally published in the mid-1940s, Mitchell combined the aspects of several old men who worked at or frequented Manhattan's famed Fulton Fish Market along the East River. He created an unforgettable character in these stories of fish-eating, whiskey, death, and rebirth.
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