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Charles Jackson was born in 1903 and raised in the township of Arcadia, New York, in the Finger Lakes region, where much of his fiction is set. After a youth marred by tuberculosis and alcoholism, Jackson achieved international fame with his first novel, The Lost Weekend (1944), which was adapted into a classic movie by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. Over the next nine years, Jackson published two more novels and two story collections, while continuing to struggle with alcohol and drug addiction. In 1967, after a fourteen-year silence, he returned to the best-seller lists with a novel about a nymphomaniac,A Second-Hand Life, but the following year he died of an overdose at the Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan.Blake Bailey is the author of Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson.His other books include A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates,finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Cheever: A Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and finalist for the Pulitzer and James Tait Black Memorial Prize....

Book details

• Full title: The Lost Weekend
• Subtitle: A Novel. With an Introduction by Blake Bailey
• Author: Charles Jackson, Blake Bailey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780307948717
• ISBN: 0307948714
• ID: 09146026
• Publisher: Random House
• Weight: 272 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 133 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. January 2015

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