The Trip to Echo Spring Olivia Laing

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A captivating exploration of alcoholism and literature by the author of The Lonely City; 'beguiling, beautifully written . . . brilliant and original' - Sunday Times

The Trip to Echo Spring Summary

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing

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.

The Trip to Echo Spring Reviews

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 * *

About Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. Her third book, The Lonely City, was shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Cambridge.

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Sku

GOR009025142

ISBN 13

9781786891600

ISBN 10

1786891603

Title

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing

Author

Olivia Laing

Series

Canons

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd

Year published

2017-10-05

Number of pages

352

Prizes

Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2013 (UK) Short-listed for Transmission Prize 2014 (UK) Short-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2014 (UK)

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