TRIP TO ECHO SPRING: ON WRITERS AND DRINKING

New York: Picador. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2013. first edition,1p; 10987654321pt line. Hardcover. 8.2 X 5.9 X 1.4 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S26.00) DUST JACKET; WHITE TITLES ON DARK GREEN HARD COVERS...DJ COVER SHOWS TYPEWRITER, WISKEY GLASS, CIGARETTE color photo..White endpapers. ; Photos, map; 352 pages; All six of these writers 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 cafés 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. .