A bestseller in 1924, this vivid piece of outlaw history has inexplicably faded from the public consciousness. Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting railroad bulls (cops) and wardens of order.
Written with unflinching honesty and insight, "Beggars of Life" follows Tully from his first ride at age thirteen, choosing life on the road over a deadening job, through his teenage years of learning the ropes of the rails and -living one meal to the next.
Tully s direct, confrontational...
A bestseller in 1924, this vivid piece of outlaw history has inexplicably faded from the public consciousness. Jim Tully takes us across the seamy ...
Memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio
"Shanty Irish is a window, cracked and soiled, into a time and a place and a people before the moving pictures became an American obsession, people who had to create their own dreams, invent their own stories, and find escape from hopeless lives in hard liquor or the cold comfort of a promised Hereafter."--from the foreword by John Sayles
Jim Tully was an American writer who enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success in the 1920s and '30s. A former circus...
Memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio
A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life
"Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and '30s. He gained this position with intelligence, sensitivity, and hard work. . . . No matter how crazily violent or fantastic his stories are, readers accept them as nonfiction. Tully makes the improbable seem true."--from the foreword by Harvey Pekar
Jim Tully was an American writer who enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success in the 1920s and '30s. A former circus laborer, hobo, and...
A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life
"Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelis...
Jim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a "road kid," he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. Tully crafted these memories into a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass--especially in his second book, Beggars of Life, an autobiographical novel published in 1924....
Tully's breakthrough novel about life on the road
Jim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most ...
"Few novelists captured the contradictions of his country so simply or so honestly in the metaphor of the pure, fatalistic, and merciless community of bruising."--from the Foreword
When The Bruiser was first published in 1936, almost every reviewer praised Jim Tully's gritty boxing novel for its authenticity--a hard-earned attribute. Twenty-eight years before the appearance of The Bruiser, Tully began a career in the ring, fighting regularly on the Ohio circuit. He knew what it felt like to step inside...
A picture of life in the boxing ring
"Few novelists captured the contradictions of his country so simply or so honestly in...
This is the saga of Madame Rosenbloom's fashionable establishment in Chicago and of the ladies in her domain. And here is the Jim Tully of "Circus Parade," the forthright Tully whose language is as frank as life itself. Tully does not pull his punches. The big men and the little ladies for whom Madame Rosenbloom's house is a social center are portrayed with vigor and honesty. The novel is crammed with incident and penetrating word pictures. It is not a story for the squeamish. But if life itself, that robust, lusty segment of life that is here so honestly and brilliantly depicted, does not...
This is the saga of Madame Rosenbloom's fashionable establishment in Chicago and of the ladies in her domain. And here is the Jim Tully of "Circus Par...
