Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage (The Selected Stories of Bette Howland)
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Product Details
Author:
Bette Howland, Honor Moore
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
336
Publisher:
A Public Space (May 14, 2019)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780998267500
ISBN-10:
0998267503
Dimensions:
5.8" x 8.4"
Case Pack:
20
File:
PGW-LEGATO-Metadata_Only_Publishers_Group_West_Customer_Group_Metadata_20250917130148-20250918.xml
Folder:
PGW
List Price:
$26.00
As low as:
$22.36
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Audience:
General/trade
Age Range:
20 to 80
Country of Origin:
Canada
Pub Discount:
60
Weight:
21.6oz
Imprint:
A Public Space Books
Overview
The acclaimed collection that restored to the literary canon "a long-overlooked artist of live-wire incisiveness, shredding wit, and improbable beauty."
Chicago Tribune Notable Book of 2019
Kirkus 2019 Best Fiction
Booklist Best New Book
Vogue.com Best Book
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of 2019
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage 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 her work was rediscovered.
Bette Howland herself 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 facets plays a central role in her work. Mining her deepest emotions for her art, she chronicles the tensions of her generation—and her native city—with a flair for language in the tradition of Lucia Berlin, Kathleen Collins, and Grace Paley. Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage introduces a new generation of readers to a wry, brilliant observer and a writer of great empathy and sly, joyous humor. With an afterword by Honor Moore.
Chicago Tribune Notable Book of 2019
Kirkus 2019 Best Fiction
Booklist Best New Book
Vogue.com Best Book
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of 2019
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage 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 her work was rediscovered.
Bette Howland herself 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 facets plays a central role in her work. Mining her deepest emotions for her art, she chronicles the tensions of her generation—and her native city—with a flair for language in the tradition of Lucia Berlin, Kathleen Collins, and Grace Paley. Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage introduces a new generation of readers to a wry, brilliant observer and a writer of great empathy and sly, joyous humor. With an afterword by Honor Moore.
