W-3 - A Memoir

Zusatztext Throughout the book, we rub shoulders with the chatty and the speechless, the erratic and the withdrawn; those sedated by the system and those at the doors begging to be let out . . . Bette Howland’s work will, and should be, read and rediscovered time and time again. Informationen zum Autor Bette Howland (1937-2017) 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 though she continued writing she would not publish another book. Near the end of her life, her stories found new readers when a portfolio of her work appeared in a special issue of A Public Space magazine exploring a generation of women writers, their lifetimes of work, and questions of anonymity and public attention in art. Klappentext Bette Howland's illuminating and bracing account of life in a psych ward, which marked her powerful entrance onto the literary scene, now with an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End . Vorwort Bette Howland’s illuminating and bracing account of life in a psych ward, which marked her powerful entrance onto the literary scene, now with an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End . Zusammenfassung Bette Howland’s illuminating and bracing account of life in a psych ward, which marked her powerful entrance onto the literary scene, now with an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End.

Product details

• Authors: Bette Howland
• Assisted by: Yiyun Li (Introduction), Li Yiyun (Introduction)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.07.2022
• EAN: 9781529035957
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-3595-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Chicago, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish, Illinois, Autobiography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), c 1970 to c 1979, Autobiography: writers, c 1970 to c 1980, Relating to Jewish people and groups