Beggars Of Life by Jim Tully

Beggars Of Life by Jim Tully

A bestseller in 1924, this vivid piece of outlaw history has inexplicably faded from the public's consciousness. Jim Tully takes us through freight trains, hobo jungles and brothels while avoiding railroad cops and wardens of order. Beggars of Life was the first in Tully's five volume memoir, recalling his transformation from kid novelist via journalist, Hollywood columnist, chain maker, boxer, circus handyman, tree surgeon and publicist for one Charlie Chaplin!

JIM TULLY, American author, was born in a log cabin near St. Mary's, Ohio, on June 3, 1888, the third son of James Dennis Tully and Marie Bridget Lawler Tully. My father, says Tully, was a drunken ditch digger who came from Ireland when he was ten years of age. My mother was a country school teacher who also came from Ireland as a child. These two people and many others who were a part of my miserable background are depicted in my books. In his seventh year, Tully's mother died, and he was sent to the St. Joseph Orphan Asylum in Cincinnati, Ohio. At eleven he left the orphanage and went to work on a farm fifty miles north of his birthplace, where he was kicked about for three years. When he was fourteen he ran away and became a tramp. For seven years he rode the rods, drifting from town to town (he crossed the country three times) occasionally working as a laborer, chainmaker, dishwasher, circus hand, or newsboy. He sojourned at intervals in five jails. He became an inveterate library bum, writes Sara Haardt, ducking in and out of public libraries from one end of the country to the other. He read everything: biography, history, fiction; Dostoievsky, Carlyle, Olive Schreiner, Balzac, Dumas, Mark Twain, Conrad, the files of the old Smart Set. At twenty-one Tully became a pugilist and might have gone to the top, he says, save that he was not stolid enough. He was a featherweight, fighting at about 122 pounds. After winning a number of bouts, he was knocked unconscious for nearly twenty four hours in San Francisco. The ring, he decided, was not his vocation. He became a salesman-and succeeded, earning $20,000 a year. In later metamorphoses he was a traveling tree surgeon and a reporter on the Akron Press and Beacon Journal.

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ISBN 13	9781902593784
ISBN 10	1902593782
Titel	Beggars Of Life
Autor	Jim Tully
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	AK Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-12-01
Seitenanzahl	256
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.