{"product_id":"beggars-of-life","title":"BEGGARS of LIFE","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eTully's breakthrough novel about life on the road \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim 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, \u003cem\u003eBeggars of Life,\u003c\/em\u003e an autobiographical novel published in 1924. Tully saw it all, from a church baptism in the Mississippi River to election day in Chicago. And in \u003cem\u003eBeggars of Life,\u003c\/em\u003e he captures an America largely hidden from view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novelistic memoir impressed readers and reviewers with its remarkable vitality and honesty. Tully's devotion to Mark Twain and Jack London taught him the importance of giving the reader a sense of place, and this he does brilliantly, again and again, throughout \u003cem\u003eBeggars of Life.\u003c\/em\u003e From the opening conversation on a railroad trestle, \u003cem\u003eBeggars of Life\u003c\/em\u003e rattles along like the Fast Flyer Virginia that Tully boards midway through the book. This is the book that defined Tully's hard-boiled style and set the pattern for the twelve books that followed over the next two decades. Startling in its originality and intensity, \u003cem\u003eBeggars of Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a breakneck journey made while clinging to the lowest rungs of the social ladder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kent State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55332051550552,"sku":"9781606350003","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781606350003.jpg?v=1778673631","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/beggars-of-life","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}