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The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking

English · Paperback

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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.

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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

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