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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selgin, Peter.

Series:

Sightline books.

Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Authors, American.

Selgin, Peter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Dead to Rights: Confessions of a Caricaturist; Dagos in Mayberry; Black Words on Yellow Paper; Straight Job; Gjetost; To Die of Italy; Keeping Up with the Days; Estranged on a Train; Damian (The Green Jacket); Restaurant; After the Planet Uranus; Confessions of a Left-Handed Man; Painting Icebergs: A Titanic Obsession; Dirty Books; My Locomotive God; The Man from Stanboul; P. and I; Alone: Two Types of Solitude; The Swimming Pool

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60938-057-6

OCLC:

753727998