The Trip to Echo Spring
Download or Read eBook The Trip to Echo Spring PDF written by Olivia Laing and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Olivia Laing |
| Publisher | : Canongate Books |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2013-07-11 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780857868893 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0857868896 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Trip to Echo Spring by : Olivia Laing
Book excerpt: 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.
