The house of early sorrows / Louise DeSalvo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018.

DeSalvo, Louise A.

DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018--Family.

Critics--United States--Biography.

Critics.

Italian American families.

Italian American women.

Authors, American--Biography.

Families.

United States.

New Jersey.

English literature--Appreciation--United States.

English literature.

English literature--Appreciation.

Authors, American.

Italian American women--Biography.

Italian American families--New Jersey.

Critics--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 208 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2018]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue: ghost writer

Lifeboat

Cutting the bread

Dark white

Passing the saint

White on black

Fourteenth Street

The house of early sorrows

My sister's suicide

Breathless, adjective

V and I

Adultery stories

Old flame

Moving on.

Notes:

"A memoir in essays"--Jacket.

American Book Awards, Winner, 2019

ISBN:

9780823279302

0823279308

9780823279296

0823279294

OCLC:

1002530513