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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson

Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson

Bailey, Blake

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLiterary FiguresAddiction & Recovery

ISBN10: 0307475522
ISBN13: 9780307475527
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Dec 3 2013
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Charles Jackson's novel The Lost Weekend--the story of five disastrous days in the life of an alcoholic--was published in 1944 to triumphant success. Although he tried to escape its legacy, Jackson is often remembered only as the author of this thinly veiled autobiography. In Farther & Wilder, the award-winning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever goes deeper, exploring Jackson's life--from growing up in the scandal-plagued village of Newark, New York, to a career in Hollywood and friendships with everyone from Judy Garland and Billy Wilder to Thomas Mann and Mary McCarthy. This is the fascinating biography of a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted homosexual in mid-century America, and who was far ahead of his time in bringing these forbidden subjects into the popular discourse.

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