W-3: A Memoir
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- Synopsis
- Originally published in 1974 and now republished with a new introduction in 2021 by Yiyun Li, this is the account of a brilliant mind on the brink. In 1968, Bette 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, she swallowed a bottle of pills. W-3 is both an extraordinary portrait of the community of Ward 3, the psychiatric wing of the Chicago hospital where she was admitted; and the 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 memoir that launched Bette Howland's career ("moving and heroically funny"--New York Times) is available once again for a new generation to discover. BETTE HOWLAND (1937-2017) was born in Chicago. She was the author of three books: W-3, Blue in Chicago, and Things to Come and Go. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984, after which she did not publish another book. A posthumous collection of her stories, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, is also available from A Public Space Books. Saul Bellow called her "One of the significant writers of her generation."
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 204 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780998267531
- Publisher:
- Public Space, A
- Date of Addition:
- 07/10/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Bette Howland; Yiyun Li
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Terry Gorman
- Proofread By:
- Terry Gorman
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Introduction by:
- Yiyui Li