Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette Howland - Rilegato

Howland, Bette

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ISBN 10: 0998267503 ISBN 13: 9780998267500

Casa editrice: Public Space, 2019

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"This achingly beautiful book throbs with life, compassion, warmth, and humor."—Kirkus, starred review

“This story collection reinstates a long-overlooked artist of live-wire incisiveness, shredding wit, and improbable beauty... Howland’s intrepidly autobiographical stories feel brand-new.”
—Booklist, starred review

Named a Best Spring Launch by Vanity Fair
Named a Best Summer Read by Publishers Weekly

This spring, with the publication of Bette Howland’s CALM SEA AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE, A Public Space Books restores to the literary canon an extraordinarily gifted writer, who was recognized as a major talent, with Guggenheim and MacArthur “genius” fellowships, before all but disappearing from public view for decades, until nearly the end of her life when she was rediscovered.

Bette Howland herself was an outsider—an intellectual from a Jewish working-class neighborhood in Chicago; a divorcée and single mother, to the disapproval of her family; an artist chipped away at by poverty and self-doubt. Each of these facets plays a central role in her work. Saul Bellow, Howland’s mentor, champion, and (for a time) lover, urged her to mine her deepest emotions for her art. It was a model for writing she embraced.

With direct and powerful use of language in the tradition of Lucia Berlin, Kathleen Collins, and Grace Paley, Bette Howland chronicles the tensions of her generation. She is a wry, brilliant observer, and a writer of great empathy and sly, joyous humor.

CALM SEA AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE showcases the full formal and emotional range of a brilliant writer in a collection that spans the entirety of her career.

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L'autore

Bette Howland (1937-2017) was the author of three books: W-3, Blue in Chicago, and Things to Come and Go. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984, after which though she continued writing she would not publish another book. Near the end of her life, her stories found new readers when a portfolio of her work appeared in a special issue of A Public Space magazine exploring a generation of women writers, their lifetimes of work, and questions of anonymity and public attention in art.

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• Editore: Public Space
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0998267503
• ISBN 13: 9780998267500
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 331
• Redattore: Hughes Brigid