Download or read book The Lost Weekend written by Charles Jackson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book How Lost was My Weekend Etc written by David Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Weekend written by Charles Jackson and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Birnam is a sensitive, charming and well-read man who spends a long weekend overcome by his weakness for alcohol, evaluating his life and its meaning.
Download or read book The Lost Weekend written by Billy Wilder and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Wyman also delivers a powerful performance as his faithful girlfriend, Helen St. James, whose selfless love offers Birnam a hope of redemption.".
Download or read book The Lost Weekend written by Charles R. Jackson's and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Weekend is Charles R. Jackson's first novel, published in 1944. The story of a skilled however alcoholic creator turned into praised for its powerful realism, intently reflecting the writer’s very own revel in of alcoholism, from which he was temporarily cured. It served as the basis for the classic 1945 Oscar triumphing movie edition. Set in a rundown community of Manhattan in 1936, the radical explores a five-day alcoholic binge. Don Birnam, a binge drinker primarily of rye, fancies himself as a writer. He lapses into overseas terms and quotes Shakespeare even as attempting to steal a woman's purse, trying to pawn a typewriter for ingesting cash, and smashing his face on a banister. That coincidence receives him checked into an “alcoholic ward.” There, a counselor advises Birnam on the nature of alcoholism: There isn't always any treatment, except simply preventing. And how lots of them can do this? They don't need to, you see. When they feel awful like this fellow here, they suppose they need to forestall, but they don't, actually. They can not bring themselves to confess they are alcoholics, or that liquor's got them licked. They trust they could take it or go away it on my own — in order that they take it. If they do stop, out of worry or whatever, they cross without delay into such a country of euphoria and well-being that they come to be over-confident. They're rid of drink, and experience sure sufficient of themselves so as to start once more, promising they will take one, or at the maximum, and — well, then it becomes the same old tale another time. Perhaps the best aspect preserving Birnam from consuming himself to death is his lady friend Helen, a selfless and incorruptible girl who tolerates his conduct out of love. Helen does, however, upbraid him with the phrases: “I have not were given time to be neurotic.” No faster has he started to get over his “Lost Weekend" than he contemplates killing Helen's maid to get the key to the liquor cabinet. He has some drinks and crawls into bed questioning, “Why did they make the sort of fuss?”
Download or read book The Weekend Effect written by Katrina Onstad and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encroaching work demands—coupled with domestic chores, overbooked schedules, and the incessant pinging of our devices—have taken a toll on what used to be our free time: the weekend. With no space to tune out and recharge, every aspect of our lives is suffering: our health is deteriorating, our social networks (the face-to-face kind) are dissolving, and our productivity is down. The notion of working less and living more, once considered an American virtue, has given way to the belief that you must be “on” 24/7. Award-winning journalist Katrina Onstad, pushes back against this all-work, no-fun ethos. Tired of suffering from Sunday night letdown, she digs into the history, positive psychology, and cultural anthropology of the great missing weekend and how we can revive it. Onstad follows the trail of people, companies, and countries who are vigilantly protecting their time off for joy, adventure, and most important, purpose. Filled with personal and professional inspiration, The Weekend Effect is a thoughtful, well-researched argument to take back those precious 48 hours, and ultimately, to save ourselves.
Download or read book The Weekend written by Charlotte Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 International Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award * Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2020 * Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Award “The Big Chill with a dash of Big Little Lies . . . Knife-sharp and deeply alive.” —The Guardian (London) “An insightful, poignant, and fiercely honest novel about female friendship and female aging.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend “Friendship, ambition, love, sexual politics and death: it’s all here in one sharp, funny, heartbreaking, and gorgeously written package. I loved it.” —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of their late friend. Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank, and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously for the remaining three. They are Jude, a once-famous restaurateur; Wendy, an acclaimed public intellectual; and Adele, a renowned actress now mostly out of work. Struggling to recall exactly why they’ve remained close all these years, the grieving women gather at Sylvie’s old beach house—not for festivities this time, but to clean it out before it is sold. Can they survive together without her? Without Sylvie to maintain the group’s delicate equilibrium, frustrations build and painful memories press in. Fraying tempers, an elderly dog, unwelcome guests, and too much wine collide in a storm that brings long-buried hurts to the surface—and threatens to sweep away their friendship for good. The Weekend explores growing old and growing up, and what happens when we’re forced to uncover the lies we tell ourselves. Sharply observed and excruciatingly funny, this is a jewel of a book: a celebration of tenderness and friendship from an award-winning writer.
Download or read book That Weekend written by Kara Thomas and published by Ember. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bold and expertly plotted page-turner." --Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie From the author of The Cheerleaders, comes a thriller about best friends on a weekend getaway that goes horribly, dangerously wrong. THREE BEST FRIENDS, A LAKE HOUSE, A SECRET TRIP -- WHAT COULD GO WRONG? It was supposed to be the perfect prom weekend getaway. But it's clear something terrible happened when Claire wakes up alone and bloodied on a hiking trail with no memory of the past forty-eight hours. Now everyone wants answers--most of all, Claire. She remembers Friday night, but after that . . . nothing. And now Kat and Jesse--her best friends--are missing. What happened on the mountain? And where are Kat and Jesse? Claire knows the answers are buried somewhere in her memory. But as she's learning, everyone has secrets--even her best friends. And she's pretty sure she's not going to like what she remembers.
Download or read book Hollywood Shot by Shot written by Norman K. Denzin and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent have Hollywood feature films shaped the meanings that Americans attach to alcoholics, their families, and the alcoholic condition? To what extent has the mass culture of the movie industry itself been conceptually shaped by a broad, external societal discourse? Norman Denzin brings to his life-long study of alcoholism a searching interest in how cultural texts signify and lend themselves to interpretation within a social nexus. Both historical and diachronic in his approach, Denzin identifies five periods in the alcoholism films made between 1932 and the end of the 1980s, and offers a detailed critical reading of thirty-seven films produced during these six decades. "Professor Denzin has produced a searching and provocative interpretation of more than a half-century of Hollywood's social and personal construction of the problem drinker in America. Readable by both lay persons and specialists, Denzin's book provides us with the most comprehensive understanding of this topic to date."--Stanford M. Lyman, Robert J. Morrow Eminent Scholar in Social Science, Florida Atlantic University "An eminent sociologist and leading authority on alcoholism, Denzin also writes skillfully about films as films and is comfortable with postmodern interpretive theoryà a genuinely interdisciplinary work of the first order." --Robert L. Carringer, author, The Making of Citizen Kane "Denzin has gone on an exhaustive bar-crawl through hundreds of movies, returning with evidence that the film about drinking is a genre of its own. He writes from sound knowledge about alcoholism--which, unlike other diseases, is frequently viewed with bittersweet romanticism."--Roger Ebert Norman K. Denzin is professor of sociology, cinema studies, and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was awarded the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is the author of several books, including Screening Race: Hollywood and a Cinema of Racial Violence, The Recovering Alcoholic, Interpretive Ethnography, Images of Postmodernism: Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema, and Interpretive Interactionism.
Download or read book A Weekend to Change Your Life written by Joan Anderson and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Joan Anderson gives women practical advice and inspiration for building creative, independent, and fulfilling lives through discovering who they truly are and who they can be. Like Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, Joan Anderson’s bestselling A Year by the Sea revealed a far larger than expected constituency, in the form of thousands of women struggling to realize their full potential. After years of focusing on the needs of others as a wife and mother, Anderson devoted a year to rediscovering herself and reinvigorating her dreams. The questions she asked herself and the insights she gained became the core of the popular weekend workshops Anderson developed to help women figure out how—after being all things to all people—they can finally become what they need to be for themselves. A Weekend to Change Your Life brings Anderson’s techniques to women everywhere, providing a step-by-step path readers can follow at their own pace. Drawing on her own life and on the experiences of the women she meets at her workshops, Anderson shows women how to move beyond the roles they play in relationship to others and reclaim their individuality. Through illustrations and gentle instruction, she illuminates the rewards of nurturing long-neglected talents, revitalizing plans sacrificed to the demands of family life, and redefining oneself by embracing new possibilities. Wake Up, Sister. It’s Your Turn A full life requires cultivation. The minute we take our hands off the plow, fail to reseed, forget to fertilize, we’ve lost our crop. And yet, most women I know, while in the service of some greater good have let their very lives wilt on the vine. Having been taught the fine art of accommodation, most of us have developed a knack for selfless behavior. We’ve dulled our personal lives while propping up everyone else’s, and we’re no longer able even to imagine having any sort of adventure, romance, meaning, or purpose for ourselves. In short, we’ve gotten way off track and taken the wrong road to self-satisfaction, foolishly thinking that after all of the doing, giving, trying, and overworking someone will offer us a reward. But Prince Charming was a bad joke and all the fairy godmothers are dead. Instead of happy ever after, most of us end up with the ache. We wake up each day with an inner gnawing, a hunger for more, a craving for an overhaul, but we are too listless, tired, or depressed to do anything about it. We have spent the greater part of our lives pouring ourselves out like a pitcher. No wonder we feel so empty. But we lack the necessary energy, a helpful roadmap, and any type of guidance and support. Well, it’s time to change all of that. —From A Weekend to Change Your Life
Download or read book The FAB Diet written by Rosemary Conley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rosemary Conley appeared on Dancing on Ice at the age of 65 looking younger and fitter than many of the contestants on there, she proved that her diet and exercise programmes really work. She is an inspiration to thousands of people and her diets are effective, simple and easy to follow. Here's what some of the people who have tried it say: THE FAT ATTACK BOOSTER DIET The Fat Attack Booster (FAB) Diet has been tried and tested for six months and the results are astonishing. ‘I lost 2 stone in 7 weeks. It really is a FAB diet!’ said Becki Gordon. ‘I lost 12 lbs in my first week and I am so motivated to keep going on this eating plan. The FAB Diet is so easy AND I’m eating normal food!’ said Robert Carr. Based on everyday healthy food the FAB Diet is so versatile it caters for all tastes and lifestyles. Select from the ‘High Protein’ or the ‘Carb-based’ menu plans, or go for the ‘Vegetarian’ choice. There are also menus incorporating ready meals, and/or desserts. You choose. And to make your selection even easier, they are all colour-coded so you can see at a glance which you want.
Download or read book Has Hollywood Lost Its Mind written by Chris Hicks and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wire-thin line that separates movies rated PG and R has been crossed over so many times in both directions that industry observers are questioning whether the rating system carries any validity at all. As a movie reviewer for more than thirty years and as a watchful, caretaker parent, author Chris Hicks learned pretty quickly that Hollywood movers and shakers like to “push the envelope,” as they put it, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s a children’s film or an adult movie. It’s not just R-rated movies that are troubling. PG-13s and even PGs can also be problematic. And sometimes worse than problematic. Simply put, relying on the Motion Picture Association of America to make choices for you or your children is a mistake. Breaking down the history of the film rating system and exploring today’s ratings confusion and quagmire, Hicks provides valuable information to help parents know how to interpret and what to expect from today’s movies.
Download or read book Before the Colors Fade written by Larry Carlson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God, Cebu, and War is presented Before the Colors Fade to document relatives, to illustrate life and background in the Philippines and the United States, and to bring to life the experiences of a Filipino/American boy. Asian Forests and their people and American Forests and their people are examined. Additional insights are given of a Navy/Marine Corps Hospital Corpsman and the Vietnam War with surprising and unusual conclusions; poignant and personal events are given along with Larry Carlsons recollections of Ray and Imogene Carlson and the early Cebu Christian Mission.
Download or read book Matters of the Heart written by B. H. Broadbent and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “M’lord, where have ye been since the ball last night? The whole servant staff has been looking for ye,” said a very worried servant of the young prince. “Robert, I was out with a maiden,” the prince said in a matter a fact-ly tone. He had come in very late in the afternoon the next day after the royal ball. He had a certain glow about him with his clothes wrinkled from lying on the floor for a good majority of the day while he was bedding a willing young woman.
Download or read book You Lost Me written by Marita van der Vyver and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willem Prins wanders the streets of Paris, disillusioned and glum. Once, he showed great promise as a South African writer of distinction, but years of disappointment have left their mark. Drowning himself in the Seine may well be the only option left to drive up his book sales. His reason for being in Paris – the French translation of an erotic novel he wrote under a pseudonym – is not exactly something to be proud of. He is no stranger to Paris. An ex-wife of his (one of three) lives in the city with his eldest son, a young man who barely knows his father. Willem finds an unlikely companion in Jackie, a young South African working as an au pair in the city, a woman old enough to be his daughter. Together, the two of them will face the chaos of the terror attacks on Friday the thirteenth in Paris. You Lost Me is bestselling author Marita van der Vyver’s thirteenth novel, a story about life’s thunder clouds and the bonds between us that offer shelter. It is a tale of disillusionment and loss, told with warmth and wicked humour.
Download or read book John Lennon written by May Pang and published by Spi Books. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal assistant to John and Yoko describes the couple's separation and the intense period of enormous creativity during which she lived, worked, and fell in love with Lennon, sharing with him a rocky romance. Reprint.
Download or read book The lost Angels written by Rebecca simpson-smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mickey think's she's a typical teenager, who happens to live in a childrens home. Her best friend is Jimmy a geeky ginger haired teen, who also lives in the same home. In the forest one day her life is turned up side down. She finds out that she is an Angel with powers. Jimmy witness's what happens to Mickey but is he all that he seems?
