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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