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W-3 : a memoir / Bette Howland ; introduction by Yiyun Li.

by Howland, Bette.

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A Public Space Books, 2021.

Howland, Bette.

Mentally ill -- United States -- Biography.

Psychiatric hospital patients -- United States -- Biography.

Suicidal behavior -- Patients -- Biography.

Psychiatric hospital care.

9780998267531 (jhc)

1st A Public Space Books ed.

xii, 204 p. ; 21 cm.

"First published by The Viking Press, 1974"--T.p. verso.

"From the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea and 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; and laboring 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, the psychiatric wing of the Chicago hospital where she was admitted; and record of a defining moment in a writer's life. The book itself would be her salvation: she wrote herself out of the grave. First published in 1974, the memoir that launched Bette Howland's career is being reissued as part of A Public Space's ongoing revival of 'one of the significant writers of her generation.' (Saul Bellow) With a new introduction by Yiyun Li."--Publisher.

Li, Yiyun, 1972-

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