The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink (Signed)

Olivia Laing

ISBN 10: 1847677940 / ISBN 13: 9781847677945

Edité par Canongate Books Ltd, 2013

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Signed by Author(s) Fine book in a fine DW. Signed by the author on the titlepage. A very well reviewed book. In which the author 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. 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. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1656602269840

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Titre : The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink (...

Éditeur : Canongate Books Ltd

Date d'édition : 2013

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Signé : ISigned by Author(s)

Edition : First Edition.

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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 )