by Charles Jackson
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...
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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