W-3 : a memoir
Howland, Bette2021
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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 31, a single mother of 2 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 both an extraordinary portrait of the community of Ward 3 and a record of a defining moment in a writer's life.
Main title:
W-3 : a memoir / Bette Howland.
Author:
Howland, Bette, author
Edition:
New edition / introduction by Yiyun Li.
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2021.
Collation:
288 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: New York: Viking Press, 1974.
ISBN:
9781529035872 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2528655