The Resource The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing
The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing
Resource Information
The item The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250039569
- Label
- The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking
- Title
- The trip to Echo Spring
- Title remainder
- on writers and drinking
- Statement of responsibility
- Olivia Laing
- Subject
-
- Alcoholism in literature
- HISTORY / Social History
- Authorship -- Psychological aspects
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Alcoholics in literature
- Creative ability -- Psychological aspects
- PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability
- Alcoholics -- United States
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Alcohol use
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Laing, Olivia
- Dewey number
- 810.9/353
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS129
- LC item number
- .L25 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Authors, American
- Creative ability
- Alcoholics
- Alcoholics in literature
- Alcoholism in literature
- Authorship
- American literature
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- HISTORY / Social History
- PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability
- Label
- The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1446141
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250039569
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013038323
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1446141
- (OCoLC)849211052
- Label
- The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1446141
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250039569
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013038323
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1446141
- (OCoLC)849211052
Subject
- Alcoholics -- United States
- Alcoholics in literature
- Alcoholism in literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Alcohol use
- Authorship -- Psychological aspects
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- Creative ability -- Psychological aspects
- HISTORY / Social History
- PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability
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