W-3
€ 14,75
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781529035957 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Bette Howland |
| Editora | Pan Macmillan |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 224 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,164 |
| Data de Publicação | 21/07/2022 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 13,92 |
| Imposto | € 0,83 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 14,75 |
| Disponibilidade | 3 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
‘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