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 London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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 London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In 'The Trip to Echo Spring', Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 331 pages
- Note
- Originally published: 2013
- Isbn
- 9781847677952
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In 'The Trip to Echo Spring', Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Laing, Olivia
- Dewey number
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- 810.9'005
- 810.9005
- 810.9005
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Authors, American
- Creative ability
- Alcoholics
- Alcoholics in literature
- Alcoholism in literature
- Literature
- Label
- The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing
- Note
- Originally published: 2013
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781847677952
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 331 pages
- Isbn
- 9781847677952
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
- Label
- The trip to Echo Spring : on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing
- Note
- Originally published: 2013
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781847677952
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 331 pages
- Isbn
- 9781847677952
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
Library Locations
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Hammersmith LibraryBorrow itShepherds Bush Road Hammersmith, London, W6 7AT, GB51.4948594 -0.2239664
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