{"product_id":"9780823279302-house-of-early-sorrows","title":"The House of Early Sorrows","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Memoir in Essays. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE IASA BOOK AWARD!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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. \u003cbr\u003eEach 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe House of Early Sorrows\u003c\/i\u003e is a courageous exploration not only of the DeSalvo’s family life and times, but also of our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40911793127521,"sku":"9780823279302","price":21.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/11b805aec04bd770b5527b076dadde82.png?v=1689697575","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780823279302-house-of-early-sorrows","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}