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The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking / Olivia Laing.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS129 .L25 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laing, Olivia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--20th century--Alcohol use.
- Authors, American.
- Creative ability--Psychological aspects.
- Creative ability.
- Alcoholics--United States.
- Alcoholics.
- Alcoholics in literature.
- Alcoholism in literature.
- Authorship--Psychological aspects.
- Authorship.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, 2014.
- Summary:
- Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In this title, the author 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.
- Contents:
- Echo Spring
- The coffin trick
- Fishing in the dark
- A house on fire
- The bloody papers
- Going South
- The confessions of Mr. Bones
- Half of him.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 1250039568
- 9781250039569
- 1250039584
- 9781250039583
- OCLC:
- 849211052
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