The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
Author(s): Olivia Laing
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.
Product Information
Short-listed for Costa Prize 2013 (UK) and Transmission Prize (UK) and Gordon Burn Prize 2014 (UK).
General Fields
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- : A&U Canongate
- : Canongate Trade
- : 0.258
- : October 2017
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : October 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : 352
- : Paperback
- : Olivia Laing