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Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

This beautiful collection of correspondence reconstructs the lesbian romance between two literary greats, featuring five hundred letters spanning twenty years. (view table of contents)

By Louise Desalvo (editor) and V. Sackville-West

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9781573441360, titled "The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf" | Cleis Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This collection of letters offers a candid, intriguing record of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf as it documents their mutual relationship from 1922 to 1941.

9780688039639 | William Morrow & Co, January 1, 1985, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: This collection of never-before-published letters offers a candid, intriguing record of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf as it documents their mutual relationship from 1922 to 1941

Nathaniel Hawthorne

By Louise Desalvo

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9780391035133 | Humanities Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $12.50 | also contains Absolutely Almost

Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work

Drawing from letters, diaries, memoirs, and novels, Virginia Woolf's subjection to sexual abuse from the age of six into her young adulthood is chronicled, and the effect of that trauma on her personal life and her work is explored

By Louise Desalvo

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9780807063262 | Beacon Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Drawing from letters, diaries, memoirs, and novels, Virginia Woolf's subjection to sexual abuse from the age of six into her young adulthood is chronicled, and the effect of that trauma on her personal life and her work is explored

Paperback:

9780345366399 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 1990), cover price $14.50

Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Writiers

Twenty-seven stories portray life in modern Ireland

By Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy, Louise Desalvo (editor) and Katherine Hogan (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780807083208 | Beacon Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Twenty-seven stories portray life in modern Ireland

Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Writers

Twenty-seven stories portray life in modern Ireland

By Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy, Louise Desalvo and Katherine Hogan

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9780807083253 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Twenty-seven stories portray life in modern Ireland

Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write About Their Work on Women

Product Description: First published in 1984, Between Women provides groundbreaking analyses of women's writing about women. A compilation of stories from biographers, novelists, scholars and artists about their respective creative processes, this new edition also includes an introduction by Carolyn Heilbrun...read more

By Carol Ascher, Louise Desalvo and Sara Ruddick (editor)

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9780415907705 | Reprint edition (Routledge, September 1, 1993), cover price $38.95 | About this edition: First published in 1984, Between Women provides groundbreaking analyses of women's writing about women.

Conceived With Malice: Literature As Revenge

Product Description: "Every creative act is a declaration of war," wrote Henry Miller. This fascinating book examines the motive of revenge as a catalyst for the creative process. Evoking Bloomsbury & Paris in the twenties & thirties, acclaimed biographer Louise DeSalvo focuses on four famous literary partnerships where the written word was used as a weapon of revenge...read more

By Louise Desalvo

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9780788151965 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: "Every creative act is a declaration of war," wrote Henry Miller.

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9780788194986 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "Every creative act is a declaration of war," wrote Henry Miller.

Conceived With Malice

Product Description: Evoking Bloomsbury and Paris in the 1920s and '30s, an acclaimed biographer illuminates the dark motives behind masterpieces of 20th-century literature--particularly in the works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller...read more

By Louise Desalvo

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9780452273238 | Reprint edition (Plume, November 1, 1995), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Evoking Bloomsbury and Paris in the 1920s and '30s, an acclaimed biographer illuminates the dark motives behind masterpieces of 20th-century literature--particularly in the works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.

Vertigo: A Memoir

The author recounts her life as a working-class daughter of Italian immigrants, her rebellion against that life, and her eventual metamorphosis from young mother to published author and Professor of English (view table of contents)

By Louise Desalvo

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9780525939085 | E P Dutton, August 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author recounts her life as a working-class daughter of Italian immigrants, her rebellion against that life, and her eventual metamorphosis from young mother to published author and Professor of English

Paperback:

9781558613959 | 1 edition (Feminist Pr, August 1, 2002), cover price $16.95

9780452273245 | Reprint edition (Plume, August 1, 1997), cover price $11.95 | also contains L'elixir De Vie | About this edition: In 1958, 16-year-old Louise DeSalvo saw Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo 11 times in one week, transfixed by the lead character's fainting spells (from which she, too, suffered) and by the image of a woman-as-imposter falling to her death.

Short Fiction by Irish Women Writers

A collection of short stories by Irish authors such as Clare Boylan, Fiona Barr, Rita Kelly, Emma Cooke, and Maeve Binchy

By Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy (editor), Louise Desalvo (editor) and Katherine Hogan (editor)

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9780807083413 | Beacon Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by Irish authors such as Clare Boylan, Fiona Barr, Rita Kelly, Emma Cooke, and Maeve Binchy

Writing As a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives

A study of the process of restorative writing draws on both personal experience and the memoirs of Isabel Allende, Audre Lorde, and others to explain how one can use writing to deal with the conflict and turmoil of one's life

By Louise Desalvo

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9780062515193 | 1st edition (Harper San Francisco, April 1, 1999), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A study of the process of restorative writing draws on both personal experience and the memoirs of Isabel Allende, Audre Lorde, and others to explain how one can use writing to deal with the conflict and turmoil of one's life

Paperback:

9780062515209 | 1 edition (Harper San Francisco, July 1, 2002), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A study of the process of restorative writing draws on both personal experience and the memoirs of Isabel Allende, Audre Lorde, and others to explain how one can use writing to deal with the conflict and turmoil of one's life

9780807072431 | Beacon Pr, March 17, 2000, cover price $19.00

Adulterio

By Louise Desalvo and Oscar Luis Molina

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9789506413088 | Juan Granica S A, August 1, 2000, cover price $15.00

Adultery: An Intimate Look at Why People Cheat

By Louise Desalvo

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9780807062258 | Beacon Pr, October 19, 2000, cover price $20.00

Adultery

The author compares the realities of adultery, including own husband's affair, with the romanticized portrayal of adultery in fiction

By Louise Desalvo

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9780807062241 | Beacon Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author compares the realities of adultery, including own husband's affair, with the romanticized portrayal of adultery in fiction

Miscellaneous:

9780807062388 | Beacon Pr, November 7, 2000, cover price $20.00

A Green and Mortal Sound: Short Fiction by Irish Women Writers

Product Description: From a land fraught with political and religious conflict comes this testimony to the survival of the spirit. Engaged politically, but also concerned with issues that confront women throughout the world, the writers in this collection embody in their work the interconnection of the personal and the political, the individual and the social...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy (editor), Louise Desalvo (editor) and Katherine Hogan (editor)

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9780807083550 | Beacon Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: From a land fraught with political and religious conflict comes this testimony to the survival of the spirit.

The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture

By Louise Desalvo (editor) and Edvige Giunta (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781558613928 | 1 edition (Feminist Pr, August 1, 2002), cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9781558614536, titled "The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture" | Feminist Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $16.95

9781558614352 | 1 edition (Feminist Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $10.01

Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family

The author of the award-winning Vertigo shares memories of growing up Italian American in New Jersey during the 1950s, reflecting on how the kitchen became the focal point for a fierce generational battle between the Old World of her step-grandmother and the Americanization of her mother. 30,000 first printing.

By Louise Desalvo

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9781582342986 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, January 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author shares memories of growing up Italian American in New Jersey during the 1950s, reflecting on how the kitchen became the focal point for a fierce generational battle between the Old World of her step-grandmother and the Americanization of her mother.

The Letters Of Vita Sackville-west And Virginia Woolf

By Louise Desalvo (editor) and Mithcell Leaska (editor)

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9781573441964 | Cleis Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $16.95

Crazy In The Kitchen: Foods, Feuds, And Forgiveness In An Italian American Family

By Louise Desalvo

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9781582344706 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, January 30, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author of the award-winning Vertigo shares memories of growing up Italian American in New Jersey during the 1950s, reflecting on how the kitchen became the focal point for a fierce generational battle between the Old World of her step-grandmother and the Americanization of her mother.

On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again

By Louise Desalvo

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Hardcover:

9781582345819 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, March 3, 2009), cover price $22.00

The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity

By Louise Desalvo

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Paperback:

9781250051035 | Griffin, October 7, 2014, cover price $16.99

Casting Off

Product Description: Fiction. "Louise DeSalvo's visionary novelâsexy and smart, fresh and timelessâreminds us that the more women's lives have changed, the more they remain the same. Helen and Maive love their families and their men and their deep, honest friendship with each other...read more

By Louise Desalvo

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9781599540641 | Bordighera Inc, October 30, 2014, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

Chasing Ghosts: A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War

By Louise Desalvo

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Paperback:

9780823268849 | Fordham Univ Pr, October 12, 2015, cover price $24.95

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