Deadly Closets: The Fiction of Charles Jackson

by Mark Connelly

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761819126
• ISBN13: 9780761819127
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"