An edition of You Can't Win
(1926)
You can't win
2nd ed.
by Jack Black and William S. Burroughs
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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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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, CrimePeople
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Canada, San Francisco, The Wild West, United StatesTimes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273).
Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1926.
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| May 8, 2025 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| July 9, 2024 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| June 18, 2024 | Edited by kathrinpassig | removed duplicate authors |
| June 18, 2024 | Edited by kathrinpassig | Merge works |
| February 18, 2009 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from San Francisco Public Library record |