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The House of Early Sorrows: A Memoir in Essays
ISBN: 9780823279302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Louise DeSalvo's The House of Early Sorrows is a stunning collection of one writer's beginnings. DeSalvo reframes and revises these 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 child of Italian immigrants, a writer, and a scholar.
Louise DeSalvo's The House of Early Sorrows is a stunning collection of one writer's beginnings. DeSalvo reframes and revises these memoiristic...
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110,13 zł |
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Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
ISBN: 9780807072431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most self-help books claim, just writing won't help you; in fact, there's abundant evidence that the wrong kind of writing can be damaging. DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight...
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing...
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87,36 zł |
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Chasing Ghosts: A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War
ISBN: 9780823268849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Chasing Ghosts is a gripping narrative about a daughter's quest to achieve reconciliation with her father during the last years of his life when he finally broke his silence about his military experience before and during World War II. When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years or that it would yield more revelations about the man--and herself--and the effect of...
Chasing Ghosts is a gripping narrative about a daughter's quest to achieve reconciliation with her ...
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110,13 zł |
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Crazy in the Kitchen: Foods, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family
ISBN: 9781582344706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's convenience-food-loving mother; Louise, meanwhile, dreams of cooking perfect fresh pasta in her own kitchen. But as Louise grows up to indulge in amazing food and travels to Italy herself, she arrives at a fuller and more compassionate picture of her own roots. And, in the process, she reveals that our image of the bounteous Italian American... During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insis... |
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77,71 zł |
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The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity
ISBN: 9781250051035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In a series of conversational observations and meditations on the writing process, The Art of Slow Writing examines the benefits of writing slowly. DeSalvo advises her readers to explore their creative process on deeper levels by getting to know themselves and their stories more fully over a longer period of time. She writes in the same supportive manner that encourages her students, using the slow writing process to help them explore the complexities of craft. The Art of Slow Writing is the antidote to self-help books that preach the idea of fast-writing, finishing a novel a... In a series of conversational observations and meditations on the writing process, The Art of Slow Writing examines the benefits of writing ... |
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87,36 zł |
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Adultery
ISBN: 9780807062258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Just after Louise DeSalvo gave birth to her first child, her husband confessed that he was having an affair. After surviving the crisis in her marriage, she began to read and write about adultery to explore the question of why people cheat. The result is this fun and compassionate book that draws upon the lives and works of literary figures such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and Henry Miller to offer a transforming understanding of infidelity and marriage.
Just after Louise DeSalvo gave birth to her first child, her husband confessed that he was having an affair. After surviving the crisis in her marriag...
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87,36 zł |
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Casting Off
ISBN: 9781599540641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Fiction. "Louise DeSalvo's visionary novel sexy and smart, fresh and timeless reminds 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. Their story might have been written yesterday, and is all the richer when we learn of its own long journey into the light." Pamela Redmond Satran
"Read this book and meet two ballsy, brazen women whose lives are as captivating as the friendship they share. In this exquisite novel, a new world is imagined in which women... Fiction. "Louise DeSalvo's visionary novel sexy and smart, fresh and timeless reminds us that the more women's lives have changed, the more they remai...
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96,10 zł |
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Vertigo: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781558613959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Born to immigrant parents during World War II and coming of age during the 1950s, DeSalvo finds herself rebelling against a script written by parental and societal expectations. In her revealing family memoir, DeSalvo sifts through painful memories to give voice to all that remained unspoken and unresolved in her life: a mother's psychotic depression, a father's rage and violent rigidity, a sister's early depression and eventual suicide, and emerging memories of childhood incest. At times humorous and often brutally candid, DeSalvo also delves through the more recent conflicts posed by...
Born to immigrant parents during World War II and coming of age during the 1950s, DeSalvo finds herself rebelling against a script written by parental...
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88,11 zł |
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The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture
ISBN: 9781558614536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Often sentimentalized as nurturing through food, Italian American women have struggled against this stereotype to speak of the realities of their lives. In this unique collection, they speak in voices that are loud, boisterous, sweet, savvy, and often subversively funny. Drawing on personal and cultural memory rooted in experiences of food, more than fifty writers dissolve conventional images, replacing them with a sumptuous, communal feast of poetry, stories, and memoir. Though they begin with food, the writers in this collection quickly carry the reader into unexpected, sometimes...
Often sentimentalized as nurturing through food, Italian American women have struggled against this stereotype to speak of the realities of their live...
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98,47 zł |
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Green and Mortal Sound Pa
ISBN: 9780807083550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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. Their voices, emanating from diverse backgrounds, demonstrate the range and depth of contemporary fiction by Irish women.
From a land fraught with political and religious conflict comes this testimony to the survival of the spirit. Engaged politically, but also concerned ...
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146,95 zł |
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