tramps

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Quixote

2005
Television reporter Dominique Angel, investigating a crusading street vagrant she dubbed Quixote because of his preoccupation with morality and righteousness, begins to think his beliefs about demons and the devil are true and finds her life in danger as she tries to uncover the truth about him.

Waiting for Godot

with a revised text
1994
A reproduction of Samuel Beckett's original theatrical notebook for his play "Waiting for Godot" that includes his directorial notes, extensive revisions, and notes on his methods and techniques.

Riding the rails

2003
Draws from the letters and oral histories of three thousand men and women to tell the story of the boxcar boys and girls who left home during the Great Depression in search of jobs or adventure.

Done and been

steel rail chronicles of American hobos
1996

The boxcar at the center of the universe

1982
A sixteen-year-old boy on a journey of self-discovery meets up with a hobo, claiming to be an Arab, who tells him of his own search for the center of the universe.

Boxcar riders

2008
During the Great Depression, young Eric leaves his family farm in search of work.

En attendant Godot

1997
Two old tramps wait on a bare stretch of road near a tree for Godot.

Nowhere to call home

1999
When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo.

Lu and the swamp ghost

2004
During the Depression in the Louisiana bayou, a curious young girl helps the "Swamp Ghost" that her cousins warned her about and finds herself with one good friend.

I was looking for a street

1988
Depicts the author's boyhood on the road visiting cafes and bordellos, relief camps and soup kitchens, railroad yards and hobo jungles in the Depression years.

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