This is the first and most celebrated of Jim Tully's five autobiographical novels. He recounts several years of Jim's wandering in the southeast and southwestern United States in the early 20th century, having left his job at age 13. Young Jim launches himself into life on the road and on the train tracks, where he interacts with a whole sort of characters from the American marginal class. Tully became the author thanks to this book, which became a bestseller and was brought to the big screen in a silent film directed by Wellman and starring Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery and Richard Arlen. With 'Buscavidas' the hardboiled literary style was born, which would feed the literature of authors such as Ernst Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau and Jack Kerouac.
