{"product_id":"calm-sea-and-prosperous-voyage-book-bette-howland-9780998267555","title":"Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe acclaimed collection that restored to the literary canon a long-overlooked artist of live-wire incisiveness, shredding wit, and improbable beauty.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book of 2019\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e 2019 Best Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e Best New Book\u003cbr\u003e Vogue.com Best Book\u003cbr\u003e Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of 2019 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003eCalm Sea and Prosperous Voyage\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eCalm Sea and Prosperous Voyage\u003c\/em\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49559545774353,"sku":"GOR011231462","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50369696563473,"sku":"CIN0998267554G","price":12.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011698458897,"sku":"NIN9780998267555","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51731259064593,"sku":"CIN0998267554VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0998267554.jpg?v=1750705965","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/calm-sea-and-prosperous-voyage-book-bette-howland-9780998267555","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}