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.
| ISBN: | 9781786891600 |
| Publication date: | 5th October 2017 |
| Author: | Olivia Laing |
| Publisher: | Canongate Canons an imprint of Canongate Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Canons |
| Genres: |
Biography: writers |