Jim Tully

• Jul-2008
• / Action Adventure
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Originally printed in 1927, this is a cruel novel about those already outcast and stigmatized. A novel based on the author's own experiences as a bum traveling and working with a third-rate carnival around the turn of the century....

• Jun-2010
• / General Fiction
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A picture of life in the boxing ring

“Few novelists captured the contradictions of his country so simply or so honestly in the metaphor of the pure, fatalistic, and merciless community of bruising.”―from the Foreword...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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“Shanty Irish is a window, cracked and soiled, into a time and a place and a people before the moving pictures became an American obsession, people who had to create their own dreams, invent their own stories, and find escape from hopeless lives in...

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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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 “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding ra...

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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“Blood on the Moon” brings to a close the series of five books which Tully hoped would be grouped together and called the Underworld Edition. He saw his previous books “Beggars of Life.” “Circus Parade,” “Shanty Irish,” and “Shadows...

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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Emmett Lawler is the first of Jim Tullys autobiographical novels. The story follows the travels of a young man through the hobo jungles of early 1900s American and his attempts to escape his impoverished and neglected upbringing. Jim Tully h...

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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Jarnegan is a novel about the decadent world of silent film era Hollywood. Originally published in 1926 this novel tore back the curtain of the dream factory to reveal the often of seedy dealings and outrageous personality’s that built an industry ...

• Jul-2012
• / Suspense
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This is the saga of Madame Rosenbloom’s fashionable establishment in Chicago and of the ladies in her domain. And here is the Jim Tully of “Circus Parade” -- the forthright Tully whose language is as frank as life itself.Tully does not pull his...

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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The desperate circumstances of a hard working railroad engineer are chronicled in this novel. After killing his wife and her paramour he is sentenced to life on a Southern chain gang where the convicts are tortured and tormented by their captors. Jim...

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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This hardboiled collection of somewhat interconnected short stories revolves around men in prison. Tully paints a vibrant picture of their lives behind bars, how they got there, and how some of them die there. These stories are dark and gritty, m...