The Trip to Echo Spring The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking Olivia Laing Picador2013Hardback350pp208x137mm 9781250039569 Product Code: 511468 Details Having grown up in an alcoholic family, Olivia Laing felt drawn to investigate the link between drink and creativity through the lives and work of six... DetailsBackDetailsHaving grown up in an alcoholic family, Olivia Laing felt drawn to investigate the link between drink and creativity through the lives and work of six great American authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. In a journey across the USA that is both exploratory and redemptive, she asks whether writing and addiction are fuelled by the same inner dissatisfaction, and contemplates the possibility of recovery.Read MoreRead Less publ $26.00now £6.99 Qty Qty123 Add to Basket CategoriesBiography (all)Literary BiographyTagsLiterature & literary studies