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W-3
- A Memoir
Engelsk Paperback
W-3
- A Memoir
Engelsk Paperback

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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

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781529035957
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1529035953
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
21 jul 2022
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
196mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
21 jul 2022
Forfatter(e):
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