The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking: Why Writers Drink

Olivia Laing

ISBN 10: 1847677959 / ISBN 13: 9781847677952

Published by Canongate Books Ltd, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking: Why Writers Drink
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847677959
• ISBN 13: 9781847677952
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award. 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 work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. 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.

About the Author

Olivia Laing is the author of four acclaimed works of non-fiction, To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), The Lonely City (2016) and Everybody (2021). Her first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her work has been translated into 19 languages.

Laing writes on art and culture for many publications, including the Guardian, Financial Times and New York Times. Her collected writing on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, was published in 2020. She lives in Suffolk.


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