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The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking
/ Olivia Laing
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Picador
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2014
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First U.S. edition.
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| Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction | 810.9 LAING | Check Shelf | ||
| Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department | 810.9 LAI | Check Shelf | ||
| Burlington Public Library - New Materials | 810.9 LAING | Check Shelf | ||
| Canton Public Library - Adult Department | 810.9353 LAING | Check Shelf | ||
| Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department | 810.9353 LAING | Check Shelf | ||
| Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department | 810.9 LAI | Check Shelf | ||
| Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction | 810.9353 LAING | Check Shelf | ||
| Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.9353 LAING | Check Shelf | ||
| New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction | 810.9 L14 | Check Shelf | ||
| Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction | 810.9 LAI | Check Shelf | ||
| Southington Library - Adult | 810.9 LAI | Check Shelf | ||
| West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction | 810.9 LAING | Check Shelf | ||
| Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department | 810.9353 LA | Check Shelf | ||
| Windsor, Wilson Branch - Adult Department | WILSON 810.9 LA | Check Shelf |
Details
| Edition |
First U.S. edition.
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| Description |
340 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-331).
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| Summary |
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, 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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9781250039569 hardback
1250039568 hardback
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