W-3

W-3
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9781529035933
ISBN-13 : 1529035937
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Book Synopsis W-3 by : Bette Howland

Download or read book W-3 written by Bette Howland and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Dazzlingly and daringly written’ Rachel Cooke, Observer 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 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


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