Vertigo / Edition 1

by Louise DeSalvo, Edvige Giunta

Overview

Grippingabout how 'a working-class Italian American girl' became a critic and writer.--Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558613959
Publisher:	Feminist Press at CUNY, The
Publication date:	08/01/2002
Series:	The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series
Edition description:	1ST FEMINI
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	708,596
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
	Prologue	xxxi
1	Fixing Things	1
2	My Sister's Suicide	13
3	Combat Zones	38
4	Finding My Way	66
5	Safe Houses	87
6	Colored Paper	116
7	Spin the Bottle	130
8	Boy Crazy	145
9	Vertigo	161
10	The Still Center of the Turning Wheel	189
11	Anorexia	200
12	A Portrait of the Puttana as a Woman in Midlife	219
13	Personal Effects	242

Editorial Reviews

"The writing here is terrific." --Los Angeles Times

"DeSalvo has one of the most refreshing feminist voices around." --San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the pleasures of Vertigo is its continual sense that DeSalvo's own history is as mysterious to her as it might be to us, that she, like her reader, is a stranger in a strange land, a perpetual traveler." --Newsday

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