Cheers
John Lanchester, 8 March 1990
The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer
by Tom Dardis.
Abacus, 292 pp., £3.99, February 1990,0 349 10143 4 Show More
by Tom Dardis.
Abacus, 292 pp., £3.99, February 1990,
“... as anything other than absolutely central to the truncation of their creative careers. As Dardis points out, Faulkner had finished his best work by the time he was 44 (Go Down Moses), Fitzgerald by the time he was 38 (Tender is the night) and Hemingway by 41 (a judgment which gives For whom the bell tolls the benefit of the doubt). O’Neill was the ... ”
