Jo Baker’s A Country Road, A Tree is an emotive novel that spans the World War Two experiences of Nobel Prize–winning author and playwright Samuel Beckett. On the heels of Baker’s bestselling work Longbourn, an homage to Pride and Prejudice, her second novel shines under critical spotlight. Samuel Beckett is introduced to the reader first…
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I am not merely talking to myself, that is in the wilderness, something I could never bear to do – Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, published in 1960. In Happy Days (1960), Samuel Beckett stages a play of extreme physical isolation, filled with modern angst yet steeped in the tradition of European philosophy and…
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