You Can't Win. Jack Black. AK Press/Nabat, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 6 Reviews. You hold in your hands a true lost classic, one of the most legendary cult books ever published in America. Jack Black's autobiography was a bestseller and went through five printings in the late 's. It has led a mostly subterranean existence 5/5(6). · first published in the The Recorder, Aug Jack Black JACK BLACK RIDES THE RAILS AGAIN. A book review by Matt Gonzalez [You Can’t Win by Jack Black. Introduction by William Burroughs. Afterward by Michael Disend. AK Press, , $] ANY AUTOBIOGRAPHY DEDICATED to the man who picked buckshot out of the authors back. In Jack Black’s novel, You Can’t Win, there is a passage where Jack Black addresses the reader directly. It is during this passage that he describes, in depth, what he does, and how he does it. Although this passage lasts for only eight pages – from page to page – the reader becomes fully immersed in the life of a burglar.
You Can't Win cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Preview — You Can't Win by Jack Black. You Can't Win Quotes Showing of "I was wrong. I knew I was wrong, and yet I persisted. If that is possible of any explanation it is this: From the day I left my father my lines had been cast, or I cast them myself, among crooked people. I had not spent one hour in the company of an honest person. You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mids and first published in It describes Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late s to early 20th century.
You Can’t Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in , then reprinted in by Adam Parfrey’s Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs. After its Amok Press edition went out of print, You Can’t Win found popularity once again with the AK Press edition. You can't win by Jack Black. Publication date Topics Black, Jack, Criminals -- United States -- Biography, Criminals -- Canada -- Biography Publisher AK Press/Nabat. You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mids and first published in It describes Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late s to early 20th century. The book was a major influence upon William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers.
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