Let No Man Write My Epitaph Hardcover – January 1, 1958 by Willard Motley
 
This novel picks up where Willard Motley's acclaimed "Knock on Any Door" left off. A desperate story of survival, addiction and poverty, a former alter-boy attempts to break free of the debilitating circumstances that have dictated over his life. Ultimately, the protagonist and his mother succumb to drugs and the protagonist follows in his father's footsteps, which ceased at a penitentiary electric chair.
 
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