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Bette Howlandâ s illuminating and bracing account of life in a psych ward, which marked her powerful entrance onto the literary scene, now with an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End.
Bette Howland (1937-2017) was the author of three books: W-3, Blue in Chicago, and Things to Come and Go. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984, after which though she continued writing she would not publish another book. Near the end of her life, her stories found new readers when a portfolio of her work appeared in a special issue of A Public Space magazine exploring a generation of women writers, their lifetimes of work, and questions of anonymity and public attention in art.
Produktdetails
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Seitenzahl: 224
- Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 164g
- ISBN-13: 9781529035957
- ISBN-10: 1529035953
- Artikelnr.: 63264723
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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
gpsr@libri.de
The voice is cool and the gaze is clear . . . a startlingly frank account of mental illness, and the contradictions and humiliations of life as a patient . . . akin to a fly-on-the-wall documentary. Martha Gill The Times
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I read W-3 four months ago and I still think about certain scenes at least once a week. It's really that good.
In this sharp, dark, and comical memoir Bette Howland depicts the time she spent on the psychiatric ward dubbed W-3 in the late 1960s. Brigid Hughes, editor of A Public Space, who …
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I read W-3 four months ago and I still think about certain scenes at least once a week. It's really that good.
In this sharp, dark, and comical memoir Bette Howland depicts the time she spent on the psychiatric ward dubbed W-3 in the late 1960s. Brigid Hughes, editor of A Public Space, who rediscovered Howland's memoir, once said: "I’m interested in writers who have a complicated relationship with that word ‘I’. I love the way W-3 upends expectations for a memoir. The way she pays attention to the world of W-3, the other patients, the doctors, the visitors. And how we come to know her through what she notices about others." It is exactly this, Howland's directing our attention outward rather than inward, that make this memoir stand out.
Despite its heavy subject matter (Howland attempted suicide in her friend Saul Bellow's apartment), there is a surprising amount of humour interspersed which help create some necessary levity. One scene in particular comes to mind that involves the patients of W-3 role-playing and imitating each other. By that point, we know the people Howland meets so intimately that without much clarifying we can identify which person is being imitated.
W-3 is one of the best memoirs I have ever read and I am very glad that her work and talent are posthumously being recognized and celebrated.
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