
The Trip to Echo Spring
On Writers and Drinking
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Kate Reading
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Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism
In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver.
All six of these men 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 cafes 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' 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.
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I do not understand this!!!!!
Is it done on purpose? It certainly seems so.
About 10 percent have excellent narrative skills.
I wonder if anyone else feels this way?
Great Narration!!!!!! Great story about 20 Century make writer who suffer with alcoholism. If you like this topic and want more
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wow
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Great listen
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Writers and their demons
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Great listen!
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There is a major flaw with the book, though it doesn’t take away from the joy of reading it. The author is unable to identify and celebrate the joys of alcohol (we learn why). Not even in a glancing mention. The immortal ecstasy of drinking with friends in your youth or the unguarded kinship of drinking with old friends in middle age is never acknowledged. Alcohol is only negative, only evil and only a first step toward life-destroying alcoholism. Shame since it would have been immensely enjoyable to read the author describing the feelings of being young and drunk and in love with life that surely these writers experienced along with the rest of us. There has to be a reason human society has grown so closely with alcohol and it can’t all be negative and soul-destroying.
Immensely enjoyable listen. Highly recommend.
Majestic toure de force
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You feel like you are with the author on the train and in a continuous hope for someone to become sober, knowing that the majority never be.
You will learn a lot
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Well-written, insightful
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The story is uneven, a wealth of detail, but not much substance. There are the friendships and later competition between writers. She mostly describes the stunning lack of awareness most of these writers had of the profound role alcoholism played in their lives.
It ends sounding more like a self help book than a « compare and contrast » the role of alcohol in these writer’s lives.
Writers drink,AA saves
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I am glad that we still have these great works of literature. They do make the journey toward oblivion more bearable after all. I am just sad to learn about the toll that alcohol took from these men.
And that this story was limited to six white men is one of my only gripes. Those these six were giants, I think that broadening the study by looking at a more diverse sample could have only enriched what is already an interesting if depressing study.
Lastly, I love Kate Reading's reading of this book. Her voice is elegant and soothing. I'm not sure what some readers who have bashed her reading of this book heard unless they just had a bad download or are listening to it at too fast or too slow a speed (I listened to it at 1.25 speed and it was perfect).
Writers as Drunks
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