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.

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Laing, Laing Olivia
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781786891600
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-160-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Canons; Canons
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: literary, Biography: writers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs