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Read [Peter Selgin Book] * Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir (Sightline Books) Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir (Sightline Books) 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
| Title | : | Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir (Sightline Books) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609380568 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
Without such an addictive beginning, that boy may never have grown up to become a writer of such great substance."--New York Journal of Books“Peter Selgin is a born writer, capable of taking any subject and exploring it from a new angle, with wit, grace, and erudition. "The quirky, intelligent memoir of an artist and fiction writer An engaging, original modern-day picaresque."--Kirkus "In this witty collection of autobiographical essays, Selgin (Drowning Lessons) clambers atop the building blocks of an artistic life to survey its attendant struggles and epiphanies. Selg
Jonnie Bassaro said This book is a treat. I devoured this book!It is a warts-and-all account shared by a person who has the humanity to laugh at himself and who also possesses a writer's keen sense for observing the foibles of others. As Selgin, who is Distinguished Assistant Professor of Writing at Rollins College in Winter Par. Warm subtle but gripping memoir Peter Selgin seems to have come of age as an important modern writer in this collection. These clear, straightforward, brief memoir sketches add up to far more than the sum of their parts. Somehow, by painting in broad brushstrokes, Selgin manages to convey a powerfully moving narrative . "Confessions of the Doubleness of a Twin" according to Elizabeth A. Socolow. This book, both for style and content and for sheer readability as well, touches greatness and bears comparison to De Quincy's Confessions of an Opium Eater and St. Augustine himself. Selgin, taken cumulatively, explains why twins in societies such as that described by Chinua Achebe in T
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. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man is a bold, unblushing journey down roads less traveled. With an elegant narrative voice that is, by turns, frank, witty, and acid-tongued, Selgin confr
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