TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laing,Olivia
TI  - The trip to echo spring: on writers and drinking 
SN  - 9781786891600 (paperback)
AV  - PS129 .L25 2014
U1  - 810.9353 LAI 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Canongate
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Alcohol use
KW  - Creative ability
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Alcoholics
KW  - United States
KW  - Authorship
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
N2  - "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, 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. - For readers of Amanda Vaill's When Everyone Was So Young, Elif Batuman's The Possessed, and Kingsley Amis's Everyday Drinking"--
ER  -