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Olivia Laing The Trip to Echo Spring

On Writers and Drinking

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Canongate Books Ltd

UK

2017

Main - Canons Edition

Paperback

352

Standard

293382

978-1-78689-160-0

1-78689-160-3

Biography: literary

Annotation

Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. From Hemingway's Key West to Williams's New Orleans, Laing pieces together a topographical map of alcoholism, and strips away the tangle of mythology to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.

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