Confessions of a left-handed man : an artist's memoir / Peter Selgin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selgin, Peter.

Series:

Sightline books

Sightline books, the Iowa series in literary nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Selgin, Peter.

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

194 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2011]

Summary:

Peter Selgin was cursed/blessed with an unusual childhood. The son of Italian immigrants, 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. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Dead to Rights: Confessions of a Caricaturist 1

Dagos in Mayberry 17

Black Words on Yellow Paper 29

Straight job 39

Gjetost 47

To Die of Italy 53

Keeping Up with the Days 65

Estranged on a Train 76

Damian (The Green Jacket) 81

Restaurant 89

After the Planet Uranus 93

Confessions of a Left-Handed Man 103

Painting Icebergs: A Titanic Obsession 116

Dirty Books 126

My Locomotive God 134

The Man from Stanboul 146

P and I 158

Alone: Two Types of Solitude 172

The Swimming Pool 182.

ISBN:

1609380568

9781609380564

1609380576

9781609380571

OCLC:

713181642