The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend is a powerful psychological novel about one man's struggle with alcoholism and the increasingly destructive consequences of a drinking binge.

Don Birnam is a struggling writer living in New York whose attempt to have a drink spirals into five days of obsession, desperation, and self-destruction. As alcohol takes control of his thoughts and actions, Don moves through bars, apartments, streets, and desperate encounters while confronting the isolation and shame surrounding his addiction.

Charles R. Jackson presents an intense portrait of alcoholism, addiction, self-destruction, loneliness, psychological conflict, and human vulnerability. Set against the atmosphere of 1930s Manhattan, the novel combines literary fiction with psychological realism and remains closely associated with the development of modern addiction literature