# You Can't Win

**Author(s):** Jack Black
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/you-cant-win/verdict.json
**Genres:** biography, autobiography, mystery
**Pages:** 279
**Publisher:** AK Press/Nabat
**Published:** Sun Oct 29 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9786054972579
**ISBN-10:** 1902593022
**ASIN:** 605497257X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/you-cant-win

## Description

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...

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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**Themes:** Mental Illness