A scholar’s memoir of growing up and the powerful forces that shaped
her as a woman and a writer; “her story will inspire all women”
(Library Journal). In this honest and outspoken reflection on her
childhood, Louise DeSalvo explores the many ways literature saved her,
both emotionally and practically. Born to Italian immigrants during
World War II, DeSalvo takes readers back to the emotional chaos of her
1950s girlhood in New Jersey, growing up with her authoritative,
distant father, her depressed mother, and a sister who later committed
suicide. Reading and research were an anchor to her then, and widened
her choices about her future in ways that weren’t otherwise
available to girls of that era. A Virginia Woolf scholar, DeSalvo
wrote a ground-breaking study on the impact of childhood sexual abuse
on the reclusive writer. Here, she mines her own early days—and her
adolescent obsession with Hitchcock’s Vertigo—in an attempt to
give her own life’s path “some shape, some order.”
Publisher’s Weekly said, “Her clarity of insight and expression
make this [memoir] an impressive achievement,” and the San Francisco
Chronicle proclaimed, “DeSalvo has one of the most refreshing
feminist voices around.”
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781558617773
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
The Feminist Press at CUNY (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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