The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking - Couverture rigide

Laing, Olivia

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ISBN 10 : 1250039568 ISBN 13 : 9781250039569

Editeur : Picador USA, 2013

Synopsis

The Trip to Echo Spring 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 this title, the author examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Olivia Laing s writing is beautifully modulated, her tone knowledgeable yet intimate. She can evoke a state of mind as gracefully as she evokes a landscape. The Trip to Echo Spring is a book for all writers or would-be writers. It's one of the best books I've read about the creative uses of adversity: frightening but perversely inspiring -- Hilary Mantel

Praise for To the River:

A magical book . . . her dreamy prose evokes a modern Alice, an hallucinatory tale told with one hand trailing in cool green water, while she wishes out folklore and science, history and biography . . . By turns lyrical, melancholic and exultant, To the River just makes you want to follow Olivia Laing all the way to the sea.

(Philip Hoare Sunday Telegraph )

A gentle, wise and riddling book. Its prose, like the river it describes, flows intricately, unpredictably and often beautifully, carrying the fascinated reader onwards (Robert Macfarlane )

A brave, distinctive, and deeply intelligent addition to that protean genre mixing nature, history and travel writing which is becoming one of the richest forms of contemporary British literature. ... There are passages of masterfully timed lyricism. (Alexandra Harris Literary Review )

Olivia Laing is a new and thoughtful voice in the tradition of W.G. Sebald. I confidently expect it to be listed in this year's favourite books (Joan Bakewell Daily Telegraph )

Without wanting to sound gushing, her writing at its sublime best reminds me of Richard Mabey's nature prose and the poetry of Alice Oswald. Like these two, and John Clare before them, Laing seems to lack a layer of skin, rendering her susceptible to the smallest vibrations of the natural world as well as to the frailties of the human psyche (Jane Wheatley The Times )

Laing is a brilliant wordsmith and this is a beautifully accomplished book. --(Frances Spalding Independent )

Biographie de l'auteur

Olivia Laing's first book, To the River, was described as 'sublime' by the Times, 'magical' by the Telegraph and 'deeply intelligent' by the Literary Review. It was a book of the year in the Evening Standard, Independent and Financial Times and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Olivia is the former Deputy Books Editor of the Observer and writes for a variety of publications, including the Observer, New Statesman, Guardian and Times Literary Supplement. She's a 2011 MacDowell Fellow, and has received awards from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador USA
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250039568
• ISBN 13: 9781250039569
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible