Circus Parade

Circus Parade by Jim Tully is a novel that tells the story of a young man named Billy who joins a traveling circus in the early 20th century. The book explores the colorful and often dangerous world of the circus, as Billy learns the tricks of the trade and becomes a performer himself. Along the way, he meets a cast of characters, from the eccentric performers to the hardworking crew members, and experiences the highs and lows of life on the road. As Billy becomes more deeply involved in the circus, he begins to question his own identity and the choices he has made in life. Circus Parade is a vivid and engaging portrait of a bygone era, full of adventure, romance, and drama.1927. Tully, novelist, journalist, lecturer, Hollywood columnist of the 1920s and 30s, road kid, chainmaker, boxer, circus handyman, tree surgeon; an inheritor of the tradition of the literary wanderer, and father of another, the school of hard-boiled writing. A quote in the beginning of the book by George Jean Nathan reads, If there is a writer in America today who can lay hold of mean people and mean lives and tear their mean hearts out with more appalling realism, his work is unknown to me. One of his autobiographical works, Circus Parade is a series of his none too happy and often ironical incidents with a circus.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.