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Overview: Blue in Chicago collects together the sharp, bittersweet stories of Bette Howland and restores to our libraries an extraordinarily gifted writer who was recognised 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 neighbourhood 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.Blue in Chicago: And Other Stories introduces UK listeners to a wry, brilliant observer and a writer of great empathy and sly, joyous humour. Published in the US under the title Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.Contents: - A Visit- Blue in Chicago- To the Country- Twenty-Sixth and California- Public Facilities- Golden Age- How We Got the Old Woman to Go- Aronesti- Power Failure- German Lessons- Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

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Bette Howland is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Bette Howland enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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