You Can't Win - Couverture souple

Black, Jack

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1902593022 ISBN 13 : 9781902593029

Editeur : AK Press, 2000

Synopsis

First published in 1926 this is the autobiography of a criminal - and an amazingly clear eyed, generous spirited and wise book.You Can't Win has led a mostly underground existence as a hipster classic, best known as William Burroughs' favorite book. And it has richly deserved its cult/legendary status, but it's time that Jack Black's book came up from the underground and was simply appreciated as a great book - a makes-you-proud-to-be-an-American autobiography that works on many levels:as a unique portrait of the waning days of the wild west and particularly San Francisco around the time of the 1906 earthquake, as an insiders view of a fascinating subculture entirely left out of the history books, as a splendid retort to the lock-em-up tough on crime attitude that so disasterously prevails these days, and as a tale of redemption - an unrepentant one though - told in a straight up style by a natural storyteller steeped in the wisdom of the school of very hard knocks. And it retains the mystery and ambiguity of great literature too. This edition also contains a new afterword by Michael Disend that tells what became of Black from the time he was befriended by the crusading San Francisco newspaper editor Fremont Older and wrote this book to the enigmatic end of his life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AK Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1902593022
• ISBN 13: 9781902593029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible