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The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful, lyrical book tells the tale of the river in which Virginia Woolf drowned, and heralds the arrival of a major new voice in nature writingOne midsummer week more than 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the Ouse in 1941, Olivia Laing walked that same Sussex river from source to sea. The ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Canons
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and ...Show more
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collectiion from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, h ...Show more