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Informationen zum Autor 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 Virginia Woolf , Vertigo , and The Art of Slow Writing . Klappentext 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 Virginia Woolf , Vertigo , and The Art of Slow Writing . Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
