Up in the Old Hotel « Sheila Sloan's Weblog

In a sleeping car you just don't feel married”(93). Madame Olga revealed that even after some 60 years of circus life, a cruel comment about her from an audience member still had the power to hurt. The circus freaks living in the apartment ... New York is the people, and the people portrayed in Mitchell's book Up in the Old Hotel recall a New York with Irish accents, beer, old friends, con artists and real artists, parties, loneliness and togetherness in places like ...