Laing takes a train trip across the USA to see the locales in which these writers lived and worked and to understand the demons that drove them to drink. The writer's background in medical matters provides a fascinating insight into the effects of alcohol on the human body a cautionary tale. Echo Spring, by the way, is the name of cheap rotgut/5(). · The Trip to Echo Spring is about another journey that is psychological as well as physical: the title, a quote from a maudlin drunkard in Tennessee Williams's Cat On Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. 8 rows · In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol 3/5(1).
'The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking' by Olivia Laing Correction: An earlier version of this review incorrectly described Echo Spring as a fictitious brand of bourbon. It is an. Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Laing, Olivia and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru - The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Laing, Olivia - AbeBooks. Cheever and five other writers who had alcohol much on their minds (and in their livers) are brought together in Olivia Laing's "The Trip to Echo Spring," a combination of literary analysis.
Laing takes a train trip across the USA to see the locales in which these writers lived and worked and to understand the demons that drove them to drink. The writer's background in medical matters provides a fascinating insight into the effects of alcohol on the human body a cautionary tale. Echo Spring, by the way, is the name of cheap rotgut. In “The Trip to Echo Spring,” Olivia Laing chronicles the alcoholism of six writers: John Cheever, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Carver. The Trip to Echo Spring is about another journey that is psychological as well as physical: the title, a quote from a maudlin drunkard in Tennessee Williams's Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, directs Laing.
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