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The Lost Weekend
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- Book Synopsis
- The Lost Weekend - directed by Billy Wilder as an all-time classic Oscar andCannes winning film, starring Ray Milland in his most famous role - is oneof the most important books ever written about addiction. No novelist hadever so honestly, and vividly, described the torments, tricks and temptationsof an alcoholic. In the character of writer Don Birnam, Charles Jackson both exposed his own struggle with the bottle, and eloquently expressed the de-mons faced by millions of others, anonymous or known. The book and film have inspired and influenced countless writers, artists, musicians, and thetitle itself has become iconic. Now, readers can again easily access this greatbook, at an affordable price in this handsome newly-designed paperbackedition.
- About The Author
- Charles Jackson lived a quintessentially tragic, sometime glamorous andtortured literary life - living in The Dakota, The Chelsea Hotel and dying at St Vincent's Hospital of complications of the tuberculosis he had decades earlier treated at a Swiss sanatorium. A queer writer, he struggled with writer's block, mental health challenges, and various addictions to pills and drink, while all the while carrying on a highly successful career as a radio and TV writer, and famous novelist. Born in America in 1903, he began binge-drinking during The Great Depression. In later life, he attempted suicide and was sent to the infamous Bellevue Hospital, in New York. Married, with two children, he nonetheless lived a complex, bisexual life, best understood by reading his works, now seen to be more autobiographical than they were known to be at time of publication.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781913606374
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Black Spring Press, (07 February 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 329 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 200 x 125 x 20 mm
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