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  • Beggars of Life

  • By: Jim Tully
  • Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
  • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Beggars of Life

By: Jim Tully
Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
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From the opening conversation on a railroad trestle, Beggars of Life rattles along like the Fast Flyer Virginia that Tully boards midway through the story. This is the book that defined Tully’s hard-boiled style and set the pattern for the 12 books that followed over the next two decades. Startling in its originality and intensity, Beggars of Life is a breakneck journey made while clinging to the lowest rungs of the social ladder.

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This narrator gives the impression that he is encountering certain words for the first time. No sense of how to deliver anything with any nuance. Total waste of time and a credit. I'm sure the story deserves better but I can't bear to find out!

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