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Any hobo books around? Novels or nonfiction I don't care,

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Any hobo books around? Novels or nonfiction I don't care, but I would prefer as modern stuff as possible.
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Jack Tully - Beggars of Life
Jack Black - You Can't Win
Sisters of the Road - Boxcar Bertha

and basically most zines written in the 90s were by couch hobos mythologising their slacker lifestyles.
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Appriciated.

Also found 'Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders'.
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Suttree
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Ironweed
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Candide
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Molloy
How It Is
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Jack London's The Road is about his time as a hobo.
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Jennifer Toth - Mole People

I enjoyed reading some of the stories, they certainly seem to describe factual accounts, but don't try to come off edgy and mysterious (definantly dispels any preeminence about homelessness).

It's very interesting to see how some view shelters through their stories: at one point a man thinks he is being masturbated upon in the middle of the night (because standard shelter life) turns out it was just arterial spray from the bunk next to his...
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