The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Olivia Laing is the author of four acclaimed works of non-fiction, To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), The Lonely City (2016) and Everybody (2021). Their first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. They are a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 were awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Their work has been translated into 19 languages.

Laing writes on art and culture for many publications, including the Guardian, Financial Times and New York Times. Their collected writing on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, was published in 2020. They live in Suffolk.

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Produktdetails

• Autoren: Olivia Laing, Laing Olivia
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781786891600
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-160-0
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: The Canons; Canons
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Kinder- und Jugendbücher; Sachbuch > Kunst, Literatur > Biographien, Autobiographien; Biography: literary, Biography: writers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs