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The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking (Paperback)
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The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking (Paperback)
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WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF LITERATURE HAVE BEEN
PRODUCED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT
COST THEM PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND CAUSED HARM TO THOSE WHO LOVED
THEM?
In "The Trip to Echo Spring," Olivia Laing examines the link
between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six
extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee
Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver.
All six of these writers were alcoholics, and the subject of
drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from "Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof" to "A Moveable Feast." Often, they did their drinking
together: Hemingway and Fitzgerald ricocheting through the cafes of
Paris in the 1920s; Carver and Cheever speeding to the liquor store
in Iowa in the icy winter of 1973.
Olivia Laing grew up in an alcoholic family herself. One spring,
wanting to make sense of this ferocious, entangling disease, she
took a journey across America that plunged her into the heart of
these overlapping lives. As she travels from Cheever's New York to
Williams's New Orleans, and from Hemingway's Key West to Carver's
Port Angeles, she pieces together a topographical map of
alcoholism, from the horrors of addiction to the miraculous
possibilities of recovery.
Beautiful, captivating, and 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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