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Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be
championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates
has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our
modern age. In Blake Bailey's masterful and entertaining biography,
Yates himself serves as the fascinating lens into mid-century
America, a world of would-be artists, depressed housewives, addled
businessmen, high living, wistful striving, and self-deception. The
story of Richard Yates here stands as a singular reminder of what
the writer must sacrifice for his craft, the devil's bargain of
artistry for happiness, praise for sanity.
Title: Reprint of two tracts, -1. An Essay on Gleets. 2. An enquiry
into the nature, cause and cure of a singular Disease of the Eyes.
Edited with an introduction by J. B. Bailey.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The
collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from
some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written
for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any
curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages
past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes
song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Marat, Jean Paul; Bailey, James Blake; 1891. xii. 45 p.; 8 .
645.a.3.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES
'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD 'Compulsively readable...
Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip
Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey
spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his
friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in
breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible
portrait of an American master and of the post-war literary scene.
Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish
milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was
nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he
championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain.
Bailey examines Roth's rivalrous friendships with Saul Bellow, John
Updike and William Styron, and reveals the truths of his florid
love life, culminating in his almost-twenty-year relationship with
actress Claire Bloom, who pilloried Roth in her 1996 memoir,
Leaving a Doll's House. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce
to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy,
Bailey explores Roth's engagement with nearly every aspect of
post-war American culture. *A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE OBSERVER,
GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD,
SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN*
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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The Lost Weekend (Paperback)
Charles Jackson; Introduction by Blake Bailey
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R449
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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 endures as an acute study of the ravages of
alcoholism, as well as an unforgettable parable of the condition of
the modern man.
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