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CONFESSIONS OF A LEFT-HANDED MAN
AN ARTIST'S MEMOIR |
| By: |
Peter Selgin |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£16.95 |
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£15.26 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1609380568 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781609380564 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 2011 |
| Series: |
Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction |
| Pages: |
244 |
| Synopsis: |
Peter Selgin was cursed/blessed with an unusual childhood. The son of Italian immigrants his father an electronics inventor and a mother so good looking UPS drivers swerved off their routes to see her Selgin spent his formative years scrambling among the hat factory ruins of a small Connecticut town, visiting doting and dotty relatives in the old world, watching mental giants clash at Mensa gatherings, enduring Pavlovian training sessions with a grandmother bent on curing his left-handedness, and competing savagely with his right-handed twin.It s no surprise, then, that Selgin went on from these peculiar beginnings to do . . . well, nearly everything. "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man" is a bold, unblushing journey down roads less traveled. Whether recounting his work driving a furniture delivery truck, his years as a caricaturist, his obsession with the "Titanic" that compelled him to complete seventy-five paintings of the ship(in sinking and nonsinking poses), or his daily life as a writer, from start to finish readers are treated to a vividly detailed, sometimes hilarious, often moving, but always memorable life.In this modern-day picaresque, Selgin narrates an artist s journey from unconventional roots through gritty experience to artistic achievement. With an elegant narrative voice that is, by turns, frank, witty, and acid-tongued, Selgin confronts his past while coming to terms with approaching middle age, reaching self-understanding tempered by reflection, regret, and a sharply self-deprecating sense of humor." |
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US |
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University of Iowa Press |
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