Mark Dawidziak

Jim Tully

Paul Bauer

Based on his time as a circus laborer, Circus Parade presents the sordid side of small-time circus life. Tully's use of fast-paced vignettes and unforgettable characters made this book one of his most successful, both commercially and critically. Among the cast is Cameron, the shifty circus owner; Lila, the lonely four-hundred-pound strong woman; and Blackie, an amoral drug addict. This is by no means a romantic story about a boy joining the circus. Tully knows too well its seamier side. Instead, he paints a picture of life at the edges--earthy, wolfish, and brutal. Fans of Jack London, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Charles Bukowski, and hard-boiled writers of the 1930s will find a kindred spirit in Jim Tully.

Circus Parade

A young outlaw's adventures surviving the turn of the century underworld.

A Hobo Autobiography

Beggars of Life

This is Jim Tully's first trip abroad. He reports the sights, sounds, smells, sensations of historic Europe with a droll, fresh and naive tongue -- Dust jacket.

Beggars Abroad

Sketches based on personal experience with the life and people of a traveling circus.

Robert Nichols

Being a Drama of the Road

Twenty Below

Buscavidas (publicada originalmente en 1924) es la primera y la más celebrada de las cinco novelas de vagabundeo de Jim (el álter ego del autor) por el sureste y el suroeste de los Estados Unidos a principios del siglo XX, tras haber abandonado su trabajo a los 13 años. El joven Jim se lanza a la vida en la carretera y en las vías de tren, donde interactúa con toda una suerte de personajes de la clase marginal americana. Jim Tully se consagró como autor gracias a este libro (llamado Beggars of Life), que se convirtió en un best seller y fue llevado a la gran pantalla en una película de cine mudo dirigida por William A. Wellman y protagonizada por Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery y Richard Arlen. Con Buscavidas nace el estilo literario hardboiled, que posteriormente alimentaría la literatura de autores como Ernst Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau o Jack Kerouac.

Memorias de un vagabundo

Buscavidas

"Blood on the Moon" brings together the stories of orphans, hobos, Irish immigrants, chain makers, whores, magicians and boxers to paint a vivid picture of those who lived outside the straight and narrow.

Jim Tully

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