by Jack Black · Monsieur Toussaint Louverture · tapa blanda · ISBN 9791090724327
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«Personne ne gagne: Mémoires» is Jack Black's memoir, published by Monsieur Toussaint Louverture in paperback (480 pages, in French).
Jack Black recalls his life as a thief and vagabond between San Francisco and Canada at the start of the twentieth century: rides on freight trains, opium dens, escapes and getaways. His ironic and compassionate tone turns this criminal account into a hymn to an unbound life and a work that inspired Kerouac and Burroughs.
Originally published in 1926 as You Can't Win. This 2017 French edition, translated by Jeanne Toulouse and Nicolas Vidalenc, includes a foreword by Thomas Vinau and an afterword by William S. Burroughs.
For readers of memoirs and true crime, especially those interested in the precursors of the Beat generation.
