The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
- ISBN-10
- 1786891603
- ISBN-13
- 9781786891600
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-05
- Author
- Olivia Laing
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.
