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Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
By Bailey, Blake
- ISBN
- 9780307273581
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2013 | Arts and Humanities
Charles Jackson's novel The Lost Weekend was the basis of the 1945 Academy Award-winning film of the same name that also earned Academy Awards for actor Ray Milland and director Billy Wilder. Bailey (Cheever: A Life), recently named as Philip Roth's authorized biographer, provides here a richly detailed, well-documented look at Jackson's troubled life, from his traumatic childhood in Arcadia, NY, to his suicide in the Chelsea Hotel in 1968. Jackson is portrayed a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
