The Lost Weekend
A Classics, Fiction, Literature book. Delirium is a disease of the night. Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend //
The classic tale of one man’s struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson’s best-known book—a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and then another, until he’s in the midst of what becomes a five-day binge. The Lost Weekend moves with unstoppable speed, propelled by a heartbreaking but unflinching truth. It catapulted Charles Jackson to fame, and...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 248 pages
- ISBN: 9780307948717 / 307948714
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Who would ever want to read a novel about a punk and a drunk! Everybody knew a couple or a dozen; they were not to be taken seriously; nuisances and trouble-makers, nothing more; like queers and fairies, people were bell-sick of them; whatever ailed them, that was their funeral; who cared? - life presented a thousand things more important to be written about than misfits and failures. Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend // I havent got time to be neurotic, he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: Time! You havent got the imagination! Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend // Delirium is a disease of the night. Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend //
Fantastic novel. The most acute portrayal of alcoholism I have ever read. Joins my alcoholic canon alongside John Barleycorn by Jack London, Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys and Factotum by Charles Bukowski. This book feels like a descendent of Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky and Hunger by Knut Hamsun in its intense portrayal... The definitive terminal alcoholic novel. Not only is this book often insightful, funny, and well-written--with just enough narrative distance to keep the story from getting too pathetic or preachy--nearly every addiciton novelist and faux-memoirist gets their main drumbeats from this basic pattern (at least for deployment in their first... I loved this book - so well o bserved
