Non-Fiction, Biography & True Stories, Literary Biographies
The Trip to Echo Spring

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

Paperback Published on: 05/10/2017
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The Trip to Echo Spring
Perfect for Literary Geeks
If you love books, literature and writing then this is a book for you. Olivia Laing explores the dark relationship between 6 great American writers, their ... READ MORE
Peter at Lakeside

Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781786891600
  • Number of pages: 352
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
  • Weight: 280g
  • Languages: English

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The Trip to Echo Spring
Smart, Thoughtful Writing
Olivia Laing is a great writer. She manages to make anything she writes about interesting and when I am already interested in the subject matter anyway, I ... READ MORE
Katy Wheatley
The Trip to Echo Spring
First you take a drink
Laing takes a trip across America in her study of six alcoholic American writers F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, ... READ MORE
MikeyC