A Summary and Analysis of Raymond Carver’s ‘Happiness’

A Summary and Analysis of Raymond Carver’s ‘Happiness’

Reading Time: 1 Min. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Happiness’ is a poem by the American writer Raymond Carver (1938-88). Carver is probably best-known for his short stories, especially the anthology favourite ‘ What We Talk about When We Talk about Love ’, but he was also a gifted poet, and his poetry helps […]

Fission and Fusion: On Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake”

Fission and Fusion: On Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake”

Reading Time: 1 Min. PETER HOWITT’S 1998 romantic dramedy Sliding Doors stars Gwyneth Paltrow as a not-particularly-convincing young English gal whose entire life hinges on whether she catches or misses a train. In the life where Helen Quilley makes that train, she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto. She moves out, cuts her hair, starts […]

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