Bette Howland: Howland, B: W-3
Howland, B: W-3
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- Pan Macmillan, 06/2021
- Einband: Fester Einband
- ISBN-13: 9781529035872
- Gewicht: 368 g
- Maße: 222 x 141 mm
- Stärke: 26 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 24.6.2021
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Moving and heroically funny' New York Times'A brave and honorable book. Bette Howland is a real writer.' Saul Bellow, author of Seize the Day
'For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life could begin. At last it had dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.'
W-3 is a small psychiatric ward in a large university hospital, a world of pills and passes dispensed by an all-powerful staff, a world of veteran patients with grab-bags of tricks, a world of disheveled, moment-to-moment existence on the edge of permanence.
Bette Howland was one of those patients. In 1968, Howland was thirty-one, a single mother of two young sons, struggling to support her family on the part-time salary of a librarian; and laboring day and night at her typewriter to be a writer. One afternoon, while staying at her friend Saul Bellow's apartment, she swallowed a bottle of pills. W-3 is both an extraordinary portrait of the community of Ward 3 and a record of a defining moment in a writer's life. The book itself would be her salvation: she wrote herself out of the grave.
This beautiful new edition features an original introduction by Yiyun Li, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Where Reasons End.