Charles Jackson
Birth date: April 06, 1903
Died: September 21, 1968
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This extended internal monologue of a gay alcoholic loose on the streets of Manhattan was in very modern in many ways despite its 1936 setting. Jackson gets very deep into the erratic, diseased alcoholic logic; his depictions of hangovers and lust for alcohol are moving and at times comic. The pas...
While not as nuanced as 'The Lost Weekend', 'The Fall of Valor' gets points for directness and for giving equal time to Ethel Grandin. Ethel is the wife of the man who falls in love with another man during the vacation that was supposed to revive their marriage.Published in 1946, the novel is set a ...
As a book of short stories goes, this book was good, not great with some stories better than others. Only one or two I would want to read again. Volume Two didn't have the likes of John D. MacDonald (JDM) or Mickey Spillane (Volume One) but a couple of names I recognized such as Frank Kane and Cr...
A bleak profile of an alcoholic, 'The Lost Weekend' is 5 or so days in the life of Don Birnam. It is implied, and later confirmed, that he'd only just recovered from a long drinking binge when his brother reluctantly leaves him alone for a long weekend.Alcoholism is what this book is about, not just...
Read as one of the assigned texts in a class on alcoholism and literature. I think it's perfectly realistic, but no one would call it a fun read.
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