You Can't Win

Author: Black, JackBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 208Release Date: 11-05-2021Details: A major influence on William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers, this lost classic was written by Jack Black, a drifter and small-time criminal. Born in 1872, Black hit the road at the age of 16 and spent most of his life as a vagabond. In this plain-spoken but colorful 1926 memoir, he recaptures a hobo underworld of the early twentieth century, a time when it was possible to pass anonymously from town to town. Black's firsthand accounts of hopping trains, burglaries, prison, and drug addiction offer a compelling portrait of this seedy side of life a hundred years ago.EAN: 9781773237978Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.0 x 0.5 inchesLanguages: English