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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.
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"One of the best books I've read about the creative uses of adversity: frightening but perversely inspiring" (HILARY MANTEL)
"A work of art, with a voice and a mood all its own." (Nick Hornby)
"Original, brave and very moving . . . Her insights shine with beauty yet are shaded by sympathy and compassion" (Observer)
"A terrific writer" (The Times)
"Full of insight, compassion and unexpected beauty" (Guardian)
"Haunting . . . a moving, troubling, gorgeously written book" (Independent on Sunday, Paperbacks of the Year)
"Beguiling, beautifully written . . . brilliant and original" (JOHN CAREY The Sunday Times)
"Beguiling and incisive" (New York Times)
"Laing's prose is lucid and exuberant" (Financial Times)
"Laing is a brilliant wordsmith and this is a beautifully accomplished book" (Independent)
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"A work of art, with a voice and a mood all its own." (Nick Hornby)
"Original, brave and very moving . . . Her insights shine with beauty yet are shaded by sympathy and compassion" (Observer)
"A terrific writer" (The Times)
"Full of insight, compassion and unexpected beauty" (Guardian)
"Haunting . . . a moving, troubling, gorgeously written book" (Independent on Sunday, Paperbacks of the Year)
"Beguiling, beautifully written . . . brilliant and original" (JOHN CAREY The Sunday Times)
"Beguiling and incisive" (New York Times)
"Laing's prose is lucid and exuberant" (Financial Times)
"Laing is a brilliant wordsmith and this is a beautifully accomplished book" (Independent)
A captivating exploration of alcoholism and literature by the author of The Lonely City; 'beguiling, beautifully written . . . brilliant and original' - Sunday Times
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- PublisherCanongate Canons
- Publication date2017
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- ISBN 13 9781786891600
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