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005			20231009193447.0
008			140327s2014 nyuab 000 0 eng
010			_a2013038323
020			_a9781250039569
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS129 _b.L25 2014
082	0	0	_a810.9 LAI
100	1		_aLaing, Olivia
245	1	4	_aThe Trip to Echo Spring _b: on Writers and Drinking _c/ Olivia Laing.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
300			_a340 pages _b: illustrations, maps _c; 22 cm
520			_a"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.
650		4	_aAuthors, American _y-20th century _v--Interviews
650		4	_aCreative ability _x-Social aspects
650		0	_aAlcoholism
650		0	_aAuthorship _x--Psychological aspects
650		4	_aAmerican Literature _x-History and criticism
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