You Can't Win

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You Can't Win - Black, Jack
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The favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived.. With an introduction by Burroughs. A BookSense 77 selection.

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$16.00  $14.88
Publisher
Nabat Books
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Pages
279
Dimensions
6.2 X 8.98 X 0.6 inches | 0.86 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781902593029

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About the Author

Jack Black was a hobo and author of the 1926 memoir You Can't Win, which has been cited as a major influence on William Burroughs and the Beat generation.

William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914. He is best-known work is 1959's Naked Lunch-which became the focus of a landmark 1962 Supreme Court decision that helped eliminate literary censorship in the United States. Described by Norman Mailer as one of America's few writers genuinely possessed by genius, he died in 1997. His many other works include Junky and The Place of Dead Roads (Picador).
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