The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
- ISBN-10
- 1250039568
- ISBN-13
- 9781250039569
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 353
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Olivia Laing
Description
Examines the connection between creativity and alcohol by traveling to locales well-loved by six of America's greatest writers, who were also alcoholics, including John Cheever's New York, Tennessee Williams' New Orleans and Ernest Hemingway's Key West. 25,000 first printing.
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