Jim Tully: 16 books

A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life “Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and ’30s. He gained this position with intelligence, sensitivity, and hard work. . . . No matter how crazily violent or fantastic his stories...

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 When The Bruiser was first published in 1936, almost every reviewer...

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 of Men as having a common thread of telling the stories of the outcasts and...

In Shanty Irish, Jim Tully weaves the bittersweet, autobiographical tale of his familys journey from Ireland to America, chronicling their struggles, defeats and little victories. This unjustly forgotten American novel is one of greatest books of the Irish diaspora. This book will tug at your heart...

“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 hard liquor or the cold comfort of a promised Hereafter.”—from...

Beggars of Life is Jim Tullys classic autobiographical novel about the life of hobos and road-kids riding the rails in early 20th century America.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway...

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, maybe the hardest hitting of all of Tullys books, yet...

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 railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting...

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 personalitys that built an industry and a great American art form.Jim Tully has...

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 has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s...

This is a book about life in a high-class house of prostitution in Chicago and how the women who worked there came to be there. This was Jim Tullys most controversial book. The book was banned in Canada in 1935 and a New York court determined that the book was obscene and banned the book within the...

À l’aube du XXe siècle qui sera celui des États-Unis, marginaux, ingouvernables et tous ceux qui n’entrent pas dans le jeu de la prospérité mènent une vie dangereuse. Ils sont harcelés par les policiers de toute sorte, expédiés en taule par les juges, lynchés par les bons citoyens....

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 inmates are tortured and tormented by their captors. Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today,...

Circus Parade is a novel about a small time, traveling circus and the colorful characters that put on the show, set up and took down the tent and most of all, ripped off the rubes as it traveled from town to town. This book was quite controversial when it was first published in 1927 because of its...