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The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking

9781250063731

The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking

  • ISBN 13:

    9781250063731

  • ISBN 10:

    1250063736

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 10/28/2014
  • Publisher: Picador
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Summary

A New York Times Notable Book of 2014
A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014

Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of American literature

In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and alcohol in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. Captivating and highly original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.

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