Description |
340 pages ; 21 cm |
Summary |
"In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work. 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Alcohol use.
|
|
Creative ability -- Psychological aspects.
|
|
Alcoholics.
|
|
Alcoholics in literature.
|
|
Alcoholism in literature.
|
|
Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
|
|
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
|
ISBN |
9781250039569 |
|
1250039568 |
|