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2186152W-3https://www.gandhi.com.mx/3b43060c-f471-3911-8edd-19db6207d7f9/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1873924/890021b2-a60f-4854-ad4c-ba37fcf947d0.jpg?v=638743299043100000206251MXNA Public SpaceInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>An extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection <em>Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage</em>. With an introduction by Yiyun Li.</strong></p><p><em>For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to beginreal life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life could begin. At last it had dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.</em></p><p>From the author of the acclaimed collection <em>Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage</em> comes <em>W-3</em>, the account of a brilliant mind on the brink. In 1968, Bette 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 laboring day and night at her typewriter to be a writer. One afternoon, while staying at her friend Saul Bellows apartment, she swallowed a bottle of pills. <em>W-3</em> is both an extraordinary portrait of the community of Ward 3, the psychiatric wing of the Chicago hospital where she was admitted; and record of a defining moment in a writers life. The book itself would be her salvation: she wrote herself out of the grave.</p><p>First published in 1974, the memoir that launched Bette Howlands career is being reissued as part of A Public Spaces ongoing revival of one of the significant writers of her generation. 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One afternoon, while staying at her friend Saul Bellows apartment, she swallowed a bottle of pills. <em>W-3</em> is both an extraordinary portrait of the community of Ward 3, the psychiatric wing of the Chicago hospital where she was admitted; and record of a defining moment in a writers life. The book itself would be her salvation: she wrote herself out of the grave.</p><p>First published in 1974, the memoir that launched Bette Howlands career is being reissued as part of A Public Spaces ongoing revival of one of the significant writers of her generation. (Saul Bellow) With a new introduction by Yiyun Li.</p>(*_*)9781733973052_<p><strong>An extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection <em>Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage</em>. With an introduction by Yiyun Li.</strong></p><p><em>For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to beginreal life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. 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The book itself would be her salvation: she wrote herself out of the grave.</p><p>First published in 1974, the memoir that launched Bette Howlands career is being reissued as part of A Public Spaces ongoing revival of one of the significant writers of her generation. (Saul Bellow) With a new introduction by Yiyun Li.</p>...9781733973052_A Public Spacelibro_electonico_3b43060c-f471-3911-8edd-19db6207d7f9_9781733973052;9781733973052_9781733973052Bette HowlandInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram50-epub-9f5cf402-759d-4d2b-9805-0c9cf57eb45c.epub2021-01-12T00:00:00+00:00A Public Space