The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing

The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink

Olivia Laing

353 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective sad slow-paced

Description

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 exami...

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reflective 90%
informative 81%
emotional 36%
sad 36%
dark 22%
inspiring 22%
challenging 13%
hopeful 13%
funny 4%

Pace

medium 60%
slow 39%

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