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A stunning collection of one writer’s beginnings. DeSalvo reframes and revises memoiristic essays 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ghost Writer
Lifeboat
Cutting the Bread
Dark White
White on Black
Passing the Saint
Fourteenth Street
The House of Early Sorrows
My Sister's Suicide
breathless, adjective
V and I
Adultery Stories
Old Flame
Moving On
Acknowledgments

The House of Early Sorrows A Memoir in Essays

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 03/04/2018
      ISBN13: 9780823279302, 978-0823279302
      ISBN10: 0823279308
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A stunning collection of one writer’s beginnings. DeSalvo reframes and revises memoiristic essays 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.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Ghost Writer
      Lifeboat
      Cutting the Bread
      Dark White
      White on Black
      Passing the Saint
      Fourteenth Street
      The House of Early Sorrows
      My Sister's Suicide
      breathless, adjective
      V and I
      Adultery Stories
      Old Flame
      Moving On
      Acknowledgments

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