| Description |
1 online resource (194 pages). |
| Series |
The Iowa series in literary nonfiction |
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Sightline books.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
℗¡Peter Selgin was cursed/blessed with an unusual childhood. The son of Italian immigrants & mdash;his father an electronics inventor and a mother so good looking UPS drivers swerved off their routes to see her & mdash;Selgin spent his formative years scrambling among the hat factory ruins of a small Connecticut town, visiting doting & mdash;and dotty & mdash;relatives in the & ldquo;old world, & rdquo; watching mental giants clash at Mensa gatherings, enduring Pavlovian training sessions with a grandmother bent on & ldquo;curing & rdquo; his left-handedness, and competing savagely with his right-handed twin. |
| Subject |
Selgin, Peter.
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Selgin, Peter. (OCoLC)fst01935981
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Selgin, Peter. Confessions of a left-handed man. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011 9781609380564 (DLC) 2011014174 (OCoLC)713181642 |
| ISBN |
9781609380571 (electronic bk.) |
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1609380576 (electronic bk.) |
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