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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (Canons) Book

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.Read More

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    The Trip to Echo Spring : Paperback : Canongate Books : 9781786891600 : 1786891603 : 05 Oct 2017 : A captivating exploration of alcoholism and literature by the author of The Lonely City; 'beguiling, beautifully written . . . brilliant and original' - Sunday Times

  • 1786891603
  • 9781786891600
  • Olivia Laing
  • 5 October 2017
  • Canongate Canons
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • Main - Canons Edition
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