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You can't win

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An edition of You Can't Win (1926)

You can't win

the autobiography of Jack Black

by and

  • ★★★★ ★ 4.50 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 13 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

Jack Black's story of his life as a professional thief.

Publisher
Amok Press
Pages
394

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Previews available in: English

Subjects
Biography, Criminals, junkie, memoir, naked lunch, underground history, william burroughs, Thieves, Crime and criminals, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Criminals, united states, Criminals, biography, Criminals, canada, Canada, biography, United states, biography, Black jack, 1871-1897, Autobiography, Escapes, Ex-convicts, Jewel thieves, Prison reform, Prison violence, Rogues and vagabonds
People
Jack Black, William Burroughs
Places
Canada, San Francisco, The Wild West, United States
Times
1875-1930

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Originally published: New York : MacMillan, 1926.

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New York

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Pagination
viii, 394 p. ;
Number of pages
394

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18306772M
ISBN 10
0941693074
Library Thing
241775
Goodreads
174380

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Work Description

William Burroughs, at the age of 13, was inspired by this book, as he mentions in a preface to Naked Lunch. You Can't Win is a memoir that explodes our ideas about the supposedly lawful past; Jack was a drifter, robber, junkie, and hustler that survived from the frontier times til the depression era...apparently. He became a librarian of sorts, wrote his memoir, and then vanished...

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