You Can't Win: A Story from Life
- ISBN-10
- 0486835413
- ISBN-13
- 9780486835419
- Series
- You Can't Win
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-10-17
- Publisher
- Courier Dover Publications
- Author
- Jack Black
Description
"A superb piece of autobiography." — Carl Sandburg. A major influence on William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers, this memoir by a drifter and small-time criminal recaptures a hobo world of hopping trains, burglaries, prison, and drug addiction.
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