Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From (1989)

Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From

1989

Documentary

Synopsis

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, his alcoholism, bankruptcies, years spent in trailer parks and motel rooms, BBC 'Omnibus' shows how Carver produced stories and poems about the other side of the American dream - about the people whose dreams go belly-up.

Credits

Director

Daisy Goodwin

Cast

Bill Archer as Self

Ella Carver as Self

Jay McInerney as Self

Jerry Davis as Self

Jerry King as Self

Lavonda Archer as Self

Raymond Carver as Self (archive footage)

Richard Ford as Self