The Trip To Echo Spring: On Writers And Drinking

Author: Olivia Laing

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  • : 9781786891600
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  • : October 2017
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  • : October 2017
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Barcode 9781786891600
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Description

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.

Awards

Short-listed for Costa Prize 2013 (UK) and Transmission Prize (UK) and Gordon Burn Prize 2014 (UK).