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Title: DEADLY CLOSETS
THE FICTION OF CHARLES JACKSON
By: Mark Connelly
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0761819126
ISBN 13: 9780761819127
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA
Pub. date: 1 January, 2001
Pages: 256
Description: This work examines the life and fiction of Charles Jackson, a pioneer gay writer who addressed taboo issues with insight and sensitivity. His stories about "outing", gay-bashing, molestation, and thrill killers are now more relevant in the 21st century than when they first appeared in the 1950s.
Synopsis: 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 fiction of Charles Jackson, a pioneer gay writer who addressed taboo issues with insight and sensitivity. The closets of addiction, repressed sexuality, and violence he explored were not merely "untidy" but deadly. His stories about "outing," gay-bashing, molestation, thrill killers, and media sensationalism are more relevant today than when they appeared fifty years ago.
Publication: US
Imprint: University Press of America
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