The Trip to Echo Spring : On Writers and Drinking

Author: Laing, Olivia

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Published on 5 October 2017 by CANONGATE BOOKS LTD (Canongate Canons) as part of 'the Canons' series.

Paperback / softback | 352 pages, Integrated black and white photos.
198 x 133 x 22 | 270g

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.