The Trip to Echo Spring
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Product Information
| ISBN | 9781786891600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivia Laing |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.260 |
| Publishing Date | 05/10/2017 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €15.00 |
| Tax | €0.90 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €15.90 |
| Availability | 10 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.