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W-3 : a Memoir by Bette Howland, Yiyun Li (introduction) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A portrayal of mental illness like none other. More claustrophobic than Girl, Interrupted & more frightening than The Bell Jar, Howland’s memoir maps the world of a 1960s psychiatric ward with an unflinching eye. — Esmé Weijun Wang "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real 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." From the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage comes W-3, 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; & laboring day & 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, the psychiatric wing of the Chicago hospital where she was admitted; & record of a defining moment in a writer's life. The book itself would be her sa

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Author

Bette Howland, Yiyun Li (introduction)

Publisher

A Public Space Books

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780998267531

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Medical

Rating

2 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24