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W-3 is a small psychiatric ward in a large university hospital, a world of pills and passes dispensed by an all-powerful staff, a wo rld of veteran patients with grab-bags of tricks, a world of disheveled, moment-to-moment existence on the edge of permanence.Bette Howland was one of those patients. In 1968, Howland was thirty-one, a single mother of two young sons, struggling to support her fam ily on the part-time salary of a librarian/ and labouring day and night at her typewriter to be a writer. One afternoon, while stayi ng at her...[Read more]