You Can't Win
- ISBN-10
- 1684225922
- ISBN-13
- 9781684225927
- Series
- You Can't Win
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-08-27
- Author
- Jack Black
Description
2021 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Illustrated with photos of contemporary Hobo and Migrant life. You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. It describes Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century. The book was a major influence upon William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers. The book tells of Black's experiences in the hobo underworld, freight-hopping around the western United States and Canada, with the majority of incidents taking place from the late 1880s to around 1910. He tells of becoming a thief, burglar, and member of the yegg (safe-cracking) subculture, exploring the topics of crime, criminal justice, vice, addictions, penology, and human folly from various viewpoints, from observer to consumer to supplier, and from victim to perpetrator.
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