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

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Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: The Selected Stories of Bette HowlandChicago 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

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 divorc e 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Public Space Books
Published: 05/14/2019
ISBN: 9780998267500
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.30w x 1.40d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2019 pg. 18
Publishers Weekly 03/18/2019
Booklist 05/01/2019 pg. 63
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