Beggars of Life
Tully's breakthrough novel about life on the road 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 &quote;road kid,&quote; 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 saw it all, from a church baptism in the Mississippi River to elec…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61277-940-9
- EAN: 9781612779409
- Produktnummer: 16995646
- Verlag: The Kent State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 752 KB
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