W-3 (eBook)

A Memoir

Bette Howland (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Pan Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-5290-3593-3 (ISBN)

Infos

'Dazzlingly and daringly written' Rachel Cooke, ObserverW-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 dishevelled, 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 labouring 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 a vivid - and often surprisingly funny - portrait of the extraordinary 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.Originally published in 1974 and rediscovered forty years later, this is the first edition of W-3 to be published in the UK. With an original introduction by Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End.'W-3 is one hell of a debut' Lucy Scholes, Paris Review'Howland is finally getting the recognition that she deserves' Sarah Hughes, iNews

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2021
• Einführung: Yiyun Li
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-5290-3593-7 / 1529035937
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5290-3593-3 / 9781529035933