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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking Author:Olivia Laing In Olivia Laing?s stunning work of unconventional biography, The Trip to Echo Spring, she delves deep into the lives of six of America?s most revered yet notoriously troubled writers: John Cheever, Raymond Carver, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and the poet John Berryman. — She travels by train, plane, and highway to t... more »he key locations of each of these men?s lives, from Key West to New Orleans, and from New York City to Washington state, seeing for herself the places that inspired much of their most famous works.
While there has been considerable scholarship on each writer, nobody until now has ever examined the clearest link between them: alcohol, and lots of it. Laing penetrates, with her astute and always engaging eye, the fascinatingly turbulent life of each author, revealing stunning truths about each one.« less
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