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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (Canons) by Olivia Laing

Name: The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (Canons) by Olivia Laing
SKU: BF121744542193
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Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? InThe 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.