Bette Howland (1937–2017)
Autor de Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Sobre El Autor
Bette Howland was born Bette Lee Sotonoff on January 28, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1961, she met Saul Bellow at a writers' conference on Staten Island and they started writing letters to each other that year. As a single mother with two young sons, she struggled. In 1968, she tried to commit mostrar más suicide and was temporary confined to a psychiatric ward. Her first book, W-3, was about the suicide attempt and its aftermath and was published in 1974. She also wrote Blue in Chicago, Things to Come and Go: Three Stories, and Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. She died on December 13, 2017 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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- Otros nombres
- Sotonoff, Bette Lee (birth)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1937-01-28
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2017-12-13
- Género
- female
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- multiple sclerosis and dementia
- Educación
- University of Chicago (AB)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Ocupaciones
- fiction writer
literary critic
library aide
editor
teacher - Organizaciones
- MacArthur Grant (1984)
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Things to Come and Go por Bette Howland
This was a long lost book that was rediscovered. It consists of 3 novellas and though it dealt with interesting topics, the style was very slow and jumbled. I did enjoy that she took very seemingly mundane lives and allowed the reader to see that the inward life how much more complexity than what was revealed to the outside world. Not a long book so it is not a large investment in time. Worth a try
I am blown away by Howland's writing. What a tragedy that she was not, is not better known. Glad she is back in print and her words won't be lost forever.
If there is calm to be found here it is the calm inside a pressure cooker before the valve is released, if there is prosperity it is the texture of observation with associated emotions. Do not look for serenity or an easy competence in the exploration of the 3rd quarter of the 20th century Jewish American take of the majority of stories or the title novella where the death of an engaging and ambitious philosopher is relived by his final lover. The most accepted of the bonds are with those who remain opaque to us, but accepted or not the bonds remain.… (más)
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- #148,171
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- 3.6
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- ISBNs
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