W-3 Howland Bette
W-3 Howland Bette An extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. "For a long…
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W-3 Howland Bette
An extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. With an introduction by Yiyun Li.
Something to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. But there was always some obstacle in the way. 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 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