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The Fiction of Charles Jackson
Charles Jackson (1903-1968) is best known for his novel, The Lost Weekend. Published less than a decade after the founding of AA, the novel's intense psychological portrait of an alcoholic captivated both the public and critics. But Jackson's success was short-lived. His second novel probed a subject far more daring than chemical dependency. In 1946 he published The Fall of Valor, a novel about a married professor's homosexual attachment to a young Marine captain. The critics who applauded his frank approach to alcoholism were disturbed that he would write about a subject many deemed unsuitable for fiction. This book examines the life and fic…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7618-1912-7
- EAN: 9780761819127
- Produktnummer: 9414561
- Verlag: University Press Of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.8 cm 477 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 477
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Mark Connelly is the author of The Diminished Self: Orwell and the Loss of Freedom, Orwell and Gissing, and several college textbooks. His fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, Milwaukee Magazine, Contemporary Atlanta, and numerous university journals. He is currently an English instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College, where he designs and teaches telecourses for College of the Air.
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