Mohlo by se vám také líbit

Informovat o naskladnění knihy

Více informací o knize W-3

• Parametry knihy
• Anotace
• Oblíbené z jiného soudku

Nákupem získáte 24 bodů

Anotace knihy

‘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

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: W-3
• Podnázev: A Memoir
• Autor: Bette Howland
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 224
• EAN: 9781529035957
• ISBN: 1529035953
• ID: 38462725
• Nakladatelství: Pan Macmillan
• Hmotnost: 164 g
• Rozměry: 129 × 196 × 24 mm
• Datum vydání: 21. July 2022

Oblíbené z jiného soudku

---

---

---