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Author Laing, Olivia, author.

Title The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking / Olivia Laing.

Edition First U.S. edition.
Publication Info. New York : Picador, 2014.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1589473~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  810.9353 LAI    AVAILABLE
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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
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