Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: Blue in Chicago
Author: HOWLAND BETTE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 14/07/2020
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $29.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
The work of a woman who has invested her life in her art, and who will, I think be remembered as one of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul Bellow
<i>Blue in Chicago</i> collects together the sharp, bittersweet stories of Bette Howland and restores to our bookshelves an extraordinarily gifted writer, who was recognized as a major talent before all but disappearing from public view for decades, until nearly the end of her life.
Bette Howland was an outsider: an intellectual from a working-class neighborhood in Chicago; a divorcée and single mother, to the disapproval of her family; an artist chipped away at by poverty and perfection. Each of these sides of her life plays a shaping role in her work. Mining her most precarious struggles for her art in each of these stories, she chronicles the fears and hopes of her generation.
<i>Blue in Chicago, and other stories</i> introduces UK readers to a wry, brilliant observer and a writer of great empathy and sly, joyous humor. Published in the US under the title <i>Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.</i>
'If there's a Howland bandwagon (and there should be), hold me a seat, or I'll stand. No problem, I'll stand.' <i>Paris Review</i>
ISBN: 9781529035834
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 208mm X 135mm
Pages: 336