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You Can't Win by Jack Black (2021, Trade Paperback)

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You Can't Win, ISBN 1684225922, ISBN-13 9781684225927, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMartino FINE Books

ISBN-101684225922

ISBN-139781684225927

eBay Product ID (ePID)24057278276

Product Key Features

Book TitleYou Can't Win

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Adventurers & Explorers, Criminals & Outlaws

Publication Year2021

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorJack Black

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Decimal364.3092

Synopsis2021 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.