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  • Beggars of Life
    Jim Tully
    'Beggars of Life' is a raw and unflinching look into the lives of the American underclass during the early 20th century. Written by Jim Tully, who lived the experiences he chronicles, the work stands as a seminal piece of hobo literature. It follows the journey of a young man navigating the perilous world of freight hopping, jungle camps, and transient existence. Through a seri...
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    26,00 €

  • Circus Parade
    Jim Tully
    'Circus Parade' is a raw and unflinching examination of the traveling circus industry and the marginalized figures who lived within its shadows. Written by Jim Tully, a pioneer of hardboiled prose and social realism, this collection of interconnected sketches draws heavily from his own experiences as a laborer and drifter. Unlike the sanitized versions of circus life often pres...
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    25,10 €

  • Twenty Below
    Jim Tully Nichols / Robert Nichols
    'TWENTY BELOW. Being a Drama of the Road.' is a visceral and atmospheric theatrical work that explores the harsh realities of life on the fringes of society. Written as a collaboration between the celebrated 'hobo author' Jim Tully and the acclaimed poet Robert Nichols, this drama provides a rare and authentic glimpse into the transient subculture of the early 20th century. The...
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    20,21 €

  • Shadows of Men
    Jim Tully
    The idea of men in jail had interested Jim Tully for years, going back to his youthful reading of Dostoyevsky’s The House of the Dead and his own time in jail and on a work crew. It was to this subject that he turned with Shadows of Men. He had already written about drifters and the underworld in Beggars of Life and Circus Parade, but those episodes were, respectively, part of ...
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    27,14 €

  • Blood on the Moon
    Jim Tully
    Blood on the Moon (1931) is Tully’s fifth and final book in what he called his Underworld Edition-a series of autobiographical books focusing on different aspects of his childhood and youth. As the concluding book in the series, Tully looks back at subjects from the previous four Underworld books. There are hobo stories that would have fit well in Beggars of Life, there are Hug...
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    27,14 €

  • Beggars of Life
    Jim Tully
    After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police and reach Canada.A bestseller in 1924, in this vivid piece of outlaw history Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on f...
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    10,80 €