Jack black biography book

Written as a semi-autobiographical story of Black's career as a burglar the novel depicts the triumphs and defeats of the vocation of burglary.

He wrote You Can't Win (Macmillan, ) a memoir or sketched autobiography describing his days on the road and life as an outlaw.

You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mids and first published in

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January 29,

jack black, alias thomas callaghan, napisao je ovo memoarsko djelo nakon što je trideset godina proveo kao skitnica, provalnik, pljačkaš i uživatelj opijuma (od toga 15 godina na slobodi, a drugih 15 po zatvorima, između ostalima i u folsomu, alcatrazu i san quentinu). žario je inom palio kanadom i amerikom između inom da bi se potom skrasio, zaposlio u novinama te netragom nestao inom proglašen umrlim (pretpostavlja titta na samoubojstvo koje je znao natuknuti).

za čovjeka koji je proveo većinu svog života na ulici inom po zatvorima, tekst je zapanjujuće jasan, svjež, duhovit, osmišljen, refleksivan, lucidan, a njegove crtice samokritike inom nježnog upozorenja kriminalcima koji će ga čitati o sudbini koja ih vreba iza vrata suptilna je i dirljiva.

kratko titta na početku osvrnuo na svoju polazišnu točku (smrt majke dok je bio malo dijete i život s ocem koji je odsutan inom duhom inom tijelom) bladte direktno prešao na srž onoga što želi ispričati: avanture, pljačke i općenito milj

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Jack Black

Jack Black was a late 19th century/early 20th century hobo and professional burglar, living out the dying age of the Wild West. He wrote You Can't Win (Macmillan, ) a memoir describing his days on the road and life as an outlaw. Black's book was written as an anti-crime book urging criminals to go straight but it is also his statement of belief in the futility of prisons and the criminal justice system, hence the title of the book.

Jack Black is an essentially anonymous figure (even his actual name is uncertain) who is recognized through association with William S. Burroughs. Although his philosophy on life was especially influential to Burroughs, who associated with similar characters in his early adulthood and mirrored the style of You Can't Win with his first published book, Junkie, Black's writings also had a profound effect on the writings and lives of all the Beat Generation.

After his last spell in prison Jack Black became friends with wealthy patron Fremont O

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Jack Black (author)

American writer and criminal (–)

For other people named Jack Black, see Jack Black (disambiguation).

Jack Black (–) was a Canadian and American hobo and burglar. Black is best known for his autobiography You Can't Win (Macmillan, ), describing his days on the road and life as an outlaw. Black's book was written as an anti-crime book urging criminals to go straight, but it is also his statement of belief in the futility of prisons and the criminal justice system, hence the title of the book. Jack Black was writing from experience, having spent thirty years (fifteen of which were spent in various prisons in Canada and the United States) as a travelling criminal, and offers tales of being a cross-country stick-up man, home burglar, petty thief, and opium addict. He gained fame as a prison reformer, writer, and playwright. He disappeared in in a likely suicide.

Life

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Black was born in in New Westminster, British Columbia^[1] and was raised