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OLIVIA LAING'S WIDELY ACCLAIMED ACCOUNT OF WHY SOME OF THE BEST LITERATURE HAS BEEN CREATED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM 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' 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.

About the Author :
Olivia Laing, a widely acclaimed writer and critic, is the author of seven books, including her first novel, Crudo, which was a London Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages, and in 2018 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty-year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher's Weekly's Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

Review :
"[A] charming and gusto-driven look at the alcoholic insanity of six famous writers...There is much to learn from Laing's supple scholarship--and much to enjoy, too." -- "New York Times Book Review" "A funny, tragic, and insightful journey...prepare to be smitten with this fresh offering." -- "Library Journal (starred review)" "A provocative, evocative blend of memoir, literary history, and lyrical travel writing." -- "Kirkus Reviews" "Exquisite...Laing, wisely, doesn't reach any one-size-fits-all conclusions about the bond between the pen and the bottle...A marvelous writer." -- "NPR's Fresh Air" "Intently observant, curious, and empathetic, Laing, with shimmering detail and arresting insights, presents a beautifully elucidating and moving group portrait of writers enslaved by drink and redeemed by 'the capacity of literature to somehow...make one feel less flinchingly alone.'" -- "Booklist (starred review)" "Most beguiling and incisive." -- "New York Times" "The tortured relationship between literary lions and their liquor illuminates the obscure terrain of psychology and art in this searching biographical meditation...The book's heart is Laing's astute analysis of the pervasive presence and meaning of drink in the writers' texts, and its reflection of the writers' struggles to shape--and escape--reality...The result is a fine study of a human frailty through the eyes of its most perceptive victims." -- "Publishers Weekly"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781982663995
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 295 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1982663995
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2019
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 155 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: On Writers and Drinking
  • Width: 170 mm


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