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Author DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018.

Title Vertigo : a Memoir
Published New York : Feminist Press at CUNY, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Series The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series
Cross-cultural memoir series.
Contents INTRODUCTION by Edvige Giunta; Prologue; 1. Fixing Things; 2. My Sister's Suicide; 3. Combat Zones; 4. Finding My Way; 5. Safe Houses; 6. Colored Paper; 7. Spin the Bottle; 8. Boy Crazy; 9. Vertigo; 10. The Still Center of the Turning Wheel; 11. Anorexia; 12. A Portrait of the Puttana as a Woman in Midlife; 13. Personal Effects
Summary Grippingabout how 'a working-class Italian American girl' became a critic and writer.--Kirkus Reviews
Notes English
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Subject DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018 -- Childhood and youth
SUBJECT DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018 fast
Subject English literature -- Appreciation -- United States
Women -- United States -- Books and reading
Italian American families -- New Jersey
Italian American women -- Biography
Critics -- United States -- Biography
Women and literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Childhood and youth of a person
Critics
English literature -- Appreciation
Italian American families
Italian American women
Manners and customs
Women
Women and literature
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
SUBJECT New Jersey -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091345
Subject New Jersey
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Giunta, Edvige
ISBN 9781558617773
1558617779