Vertigo A Memoir

Name: Vertigo A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781558613959

ISBN-10: 1558613951

ISBN-13: 9781558613959

Edition: 2002

Authors: Louise DeSalvo, Edvige Giunta

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In her no-holds-barred family memoir, controversial scholar-critic Louise DeSalvo breaks the traditional silence around life for an Italian American girl coming of age in working-class Hoboken, New Jersey. Upon first publication, DeSalvo's memoir__which sifts through painful memories of childhood incest, a sister's suicide, a mother's psychotic depression, and a father's violent rage__enjoyed wide acclaim as an instant classic of the genre, written in "one of the most refreshing feminist voices around."-San Francisco Chronicle Marketing Plans: East Coast readings Extensively promoted with new anthology Taste This: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Identity Louise DeSalvo is…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 8/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Introduction



Prologue



Fixing Things



My Sister's Suicide



Combat Zones



Finding My Way



Safe Houses



Colored Paper



Spin the Bottle



Boy Crazy



Vertigo



The Still Center of the Turning Wheel



Anorexia



A Portrait of the Puttana as a Woman in Midlife



Personal Effects