W-3 (ePub)
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...
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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
- Autor: Bette Howland
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2021, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1529035937
- ISBN-13: 9781529035933
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2021
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Größe: 1.20 MB
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