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Wired for Books: Raymond Carver (1983)

Subject

Literature

In this 1983 interview with Don Swaim, the short story writer and poet, Raymond Carver, talks about growing up in the Pacific Northwest, his writing life, and his struggle with alcoholism.

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Case of the Simple Simon, The (1964 Television)

aka: Simple Simon

Series

Perry Mason

Producer

Arthur Marks

Legal drama series about a fictional defence attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. In this episode an actress (Field), searching for her long-lost son, is implicated...

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Raymond Carver - Dreams Are What You Wake Up from (1989)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £125.00

When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize, yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences,...

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Short Cuts (1995)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 188 minutes), £15.99

A film adaptation of a loosly-knit collection of short stories by Raymond Carver on the everyday lives of a number of Los Angeles residents.

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Great Writers of the Twentieth Century (1997)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes each), £125.00 each or £500 the set of 25

Profiles of 25 prominent 20th-century novelists, using interviews with friends, relatives and experts along with archive footage. Subjects of individual programmes are: D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, F Scott...

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