In Our Time (short story collection) we are in hell." Hemingway conjures a world where "the weak are pitilessly exploited by the strong, and ... all functions of life ... promise only pain." Hemingway's semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams is "vital to Hemingway's career", writes Mellow, and generally his character reflects Hemingway's experiences. Nick, who features in eight of the stories, is an alter ego, a means for Hemingway to express his own experiences, from the first story '"Indian Camp" which features Nick as a child. According to critic Howard Hannum, the trauma of birth and suicide Hemingway paints in "Indian Camp" rendered a leitmotif that gave
Brief Guide To A Happy Life begins in my life. Not everything is perfect with her new colleagues either. The secretary Anya is busy searching for her second half. Lyuba is deciding on how to deal with the fact that she is not able to have children, and Katya is mired in a family home which she can no longer tolerate. Brief Guide To A Happy Life Brief Guide To A Happy Life () is a Russian sixteen serial television series, filmed by director Valeriya Gai Germanika and with a scenario by Anna Kozlova. It was aired on Channel One Russia from 12 March to 5