The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking
Author(s): Olivia Laing
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award.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 work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. Beautiful, captivating and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.
General Information
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- : Canongate Books
- : Canongate Books Ltd
- : 0.24
- : 01 April 2014
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 July 2014
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Olivia Laing
- : Main
- : en
- : 340
- : Illustrationsstrations (black and white), map (black and white)
More About The Product
One of the best reviewed books of 2013, also shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award, now available in paperback
