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W-3

- A Memoir

  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 288 sider

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'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

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal288
  • Udgivelsesdato21-07-2022
  • ISBN139781529035957
  • Forlag Pan Macmillan
  • MålgruppeFrom 18 years
  • FormatPaperback
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  • Vægt164 g
  • Dybde1,9 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
    book img
    13 cm
    19,7 cm

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