The house of early sorrows : a memoir in essays /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
DeSalvo, Louise A., > 1942-2018.
DeSalvo, Louise A., > 1942-2018 > Family.
DeSalvo, Louise A., > 1942-
DeSalvo, Louise A., > 1942-2018
Critics > United States > Biography.
English literature > Appreciation > United States.
Authors, American > Biography.
Italian American women > Biography.
Italian American families > New Jersey.
Critiques > États-Unis > Biographies.
Écrivains américains > Biographies.
Américaines d'origine italienne > Biographies.
Familles américaines d'origine italienne > New Jersey.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Authors, American
Critics > Biography
English literature > Appreciation
Families
Italian American families
Italian American women
New Jersey
United States
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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