The Trip to Echo Spring
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| Author | : Olivia Laing |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2017-10-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 1786891603 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781786891600 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Trip to Echo Spring by : Olivia Laing
Book excerpt: 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.
