The house of early sorrows : a memoir in essays /
As the child of children of immigrants, Louise DeSalvo was at first reluctant to write about her truths. Her abusive father, her sister's suicide, her illness. In this stunning collection of her captivating and frank essays on her life and her Italian-American culture, Louise DeSalvo centers on...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | As the child of children of immigrants, Louise DeSalvo was at first reluctant to write about her truths. Her abusive father, her sister's suicide, her illness. In this stunning collection of her captivating and frank essays on her life and her Italian-American culture, Louise DeSalvo centers on her beginnings, reframing and revising her acclaimed memoiristic essays, pieces that were the seeds of longer collections, to reveal her true power as a memoirist: the ability to dig ever deeper for personal and political truths that illuminate what it means to be a woman, a child of Italian immigrants, a writer and a scholar. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 208 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780823279296 0823279294 9780823279302 0823279308 |