The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking - Canons

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
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Imprint:	Canongate
Published date:	05 Oct 2017
DEWEY:	810.9005
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	352
Weight:	270g
Height:	198mm
Width:	133mm
Spine width:	22mm

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