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Publisher: Canongate

Author: Olivia Laing

ISBN: 9781786891600

Year: 2013

Format: Paperback

Non fiction, Memoir

Trip to Echo Spring by
Olivia Laing

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$ 500.00 mxn

Trip to Echo Spring by

Olivia Laing

Reviews

"One of the best books I’ve read about the creative uses of adversity: frightening but perversely inspiring"

Hilary Mantel

Summary

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.

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