The House of Early Sorrows - by Louise DeSalvo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>WINNER OF THE IASA BOOK AWARD!</b><br><b>AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER!</b> <p/>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 her beginnings, reframing and revising her acclaimed memoiristic essays, pieces 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 second-generation American, a writer, and a scholar. <p/>Each essay is driven by a complex inquiry that examines the personal, familial, social, ethnic, and historical dimensions of identity. Collectively, they constitute a story significantly different from DeSalvo's memoirs when they first published, where the starkness of their meaning became blunted by material surrounding them. DeSalvo has also restored material written and then deleted--experiences she was too reticent to reveal before, in writing about her sister's suicide, her husband's adultery, her own sexual assault. The essays also include new material to shift the ballast of an essay as her life has changed significantly through the years. <p/><i>The House of Early Sorrows</i> is a courageous exploration not only of the DeSalvo's family life and times, but also of our own.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The essays... continues DeSalvo's lifelong quest to understand her past, her family, and herself that is the foundation of all her memoir writing.-- "VIA: Voices in Italian Americana"<br><br>A lyrical, moving collection. DeSalvo performs a complex inquiry that examines the personal, familial, social, ethnic, and historical dimensions of identity. We realize we are not reading to find out about DeSalvo's life and times, but our own.<b>---Richard Hoffman, <i>Half the House: A Memoir</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Louise DeSalvo started the MFA in Memoir Program at Hunter College where she held the Jenny Hunter Endowed Chair for Literature and Creative Writing until her retirement in 2017. She is the author of several books including <i>Virginia Woolf</i>, <i>Vertigo</i>, and <i>The Art of Slow Writing</i>.
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