Louise DeSalvo, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (260p) ISBN 978-1-58234-298-6
Professor, lecturer and scholar DeSalvo successfully blends catharsis and storytelling in an affecting story of immigrants in America. DeSalvo (Vertigo
; Breathless
; etc.) grew up in New Jersey, the daughter of first-generation Americans and the...
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Louise DeSalvo, Author Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $22 (227p) ISBN 978-1-58234-581-9
From Percy Blythe Shelley's ultimately fatal moving habits to Elizabeth Bishop's endless search for a true home, author and professor DeSalvo chronicles the writer's quest for the perfect home in this memoir-slash-literary history. A noted Virginia...
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Louise DeSalvo, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-525-93899-6
DeSalvo (Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work) examines here the psychological forces that inform creativity in this lively literary study. Focusing on three 20th-century novels and one play, she presents...
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Louise DeSalvo. St. Martin’s, $15.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05103-5
Memoirist and writing teacher DeSalvo (Writing as a Way of Healing) turns what might have been an exercise in navel-gazing into a lively and inspiring guide for writers of all stripes. Whether readers are taking their first stab at the Great...
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Louise DeSalvo. Fordham Univ., $24.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8232-6884-9
Prolific author/memoirist DeSalvo (Vertigo) focuses her latest work on her father, Louis DeSalvo, a WWII veteran who died in 2005. DeSalvo first takes readers through his early life in North Bergen, N.J., describing his devoted mother and violent,...
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