(033380) Desalvo, Louise. Vertigo: A Memoir. New York: Dutton, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 263 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. This is a review copy with the publisher's printed material laid in. The author was born to Italian immigrants and came of age in the 1950s. In 1958, sixteen-year-old Louise saw Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo eleven times in one week and was transfixed by the lead character's fainting spells (which she too suffered) and by the image of woman-as-imposter falling to her death ISBN: 0525939083 (Women, Italian Americans, Critics)
