Vertigo: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
by Louise DeSalvo

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Summary of Vertigo: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)

In her no-holds-barred family memoir, controversial scholar-critic Louise DeSalvo breaks the traditional silence around life for an Italian American girl coming of age in working-class Hoboken, New Jersey. Upon first publication, DeSalvo's memoirwhich sifts through painful memories of childhood incest, a sister's suicide, a mother's psychotic depression, and a father's violent rageenjoyed wide acclaim as an instant classic of the genre, written in "one of the most refreshing feminist voices around."-San Francisco Chronicle

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Louise DeSalvo is professor of English at Hunter College. She has published thirteen books, including the acclaimed Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work.

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• Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature
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• Specific Groups > Women
• Family & Childhood
• Memoirs
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• Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > General
• Women's Studies > General