Emmett Lawler

Emmett Lawler is the first of Jim Tully’s autobiographical novels. The story follows the travels of a young man through the hobo jungles of early 1900’s American and his attempts to escape his impoverished and neglected upbringing.

Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of America’s best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway and Fitzgerald as a true American voice. 

This Ring eBooks edition of this forgotten American classic is DRM free.

What the Critics Said:

 “If you have a couple of dollars to buy a novel, buy this one!” – Upton Sinclair

"Emmett Lawler is the record of a soul's searching for beauty, and still firmly believing in the fabled pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow. - Los Angeles Times

 “If Tully were a Russian, read in translation, all the Professors would be hymning him. He has all of Gorky’s capacity for making vivid the miseries of poor and helpless men, and in addition he has a humor that no Russian could conceivably have.” - H.L. Mencken