By: Jack Black
Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-16-13
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Historical
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Studios
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
You see on your screen a true lost classic, one of the most legendary cult books ever published in America. Jack Black's autobiography was a bestseller and went through five printings in the late 1920's. It has led a mostly subterranean existence since then - best known as William S. Burrough's favorite book, one he admitted lifting big chunks of from memory for his first novel, Junky. But it's time we got wise to this book, which is in itself a remarkably wise book - and a ripping true saga.
A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived.
With an introduction by Burroughs. A BookSense 77 selection.
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