Raymond Carver
Dreams Are What You Wake Up From
'Nobody in America had ever written about these people before.... the kind of people who lived in trailer parks, and drank gin at the kitchen table....'
This is how Jay Mclnerney described the singular literary landscape that became known as 'Carver country.'
Omnibus explores the life that shaped the work of this extraordinary writer, who, after his death a year ago, was acclaimed as the 'American Chekhov' and 'the saviour of the modern short story.'
Carver was friend and mentor to a whole generation of American writers like his wife, poet Tess Gallagher , and Richard Ford.
The programme features dramatisations of two of Carver's most famous stories filmed in their original settings in the American north-west, and specially composed music by the American guitarist Leo Kottke.
Camera JOHN HOOPER
Film editor GUY CROSSMAN Director DAISY GOODWIN
Omnibus editor ANDREW SNELL