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.
Product code: 9781786891600
| ISBN |
9781786891600 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H198xW129xS20 |
| Series |
Canons |
| No. Of Pages |
352 |
| Publisher |
Canongate Books Ltd |
| Edition |
Main - Canons Edition |