Description
Title: Trip to Echo Spring, The: On Writers & Drinking
Author: LAING OLIVIA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/10/2017
Imprint: CANONGATE
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781786891600
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Edition: 01