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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Obsessed with the idea that talk is history, Joe Gould, who'd downloaded himself from his Harvard-educated life to spend some forty years living from hand to mouth in Greenwich Village as a kind of halfoutcast/half bohemian, immersed himself in the sheer listening to and writing down of the astonishing, offhand things he heard spoken, filling hundreds of dime-store composition books. In 1942, Joseph Mitchell profiledGould in The New Yorker & again, some twenty years later. The two have been combined to form this unique portrait of an original New Yorker, whose passion for language gave birth to the term & genre 'oral history.' 186p.…