A portrait of New York eccentric Joe Gould's work towards a never-discovered, mammoth work of overheard conversations, with Gould's story reflected in the author's own, never publishing another book after the initial release of }Joe Gould's Secret{ ‘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, IndependentIt was 1932 when Joseph Mitchell first came across Joe Gould, a Harvard-educated vagrant of Greenwich Village.
