You Can't Win
About this book
William Burroughs, at the age of 13, was inspired by this book, as he mentions in a preface to Naked Lunch. You Can't Win is a memoir that explodes our ideas about the supposedly lawful past; Jack was a drifter, robber, junkie, and hustler that survived from the frontier times til the depression era...apparently. He became a librarian of sorts, wrote his memoir, and then vanished...
Subjects
- autobiography
- biography
- biography & autobiography / criminals & outlaws
- black jack, 1871-1897
- canada, biography
- crime
- crime and criminals
- criminals
- criminals, biography
- criminals, canada
- criminals, united states
- escapes
- ex-convicts
- jewel thieves
- junkie
- long now manual for civilization
- memoir
- naked lunch
- prison reform
- prison violence
- rogues and vagabonds
- thieves
- underground history
- united states, biography
- william burroughs