{"product_id":"w-g68085017","title":"W-3","description":"'Dazzlingly and daringly written' Rachel Cooke, Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBette 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'W-3 is one hell of a debut' Lucy Scholes, Paris Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Howland is finally getting the recognition that she deserves' Sarah Hughes, iNews","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57602336391494,"sku":"9781529035957","price":15.52,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/ac106ff6d74333eed6edc5c1fea84ddacd5bc60f10e9a55d9b16ec58a24ee00d.jpg?v=1792065861","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/products\/w-g68085017","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}