Author: Peter Selgin
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Confessions of a Left-Handed Man
Author: Peter Selgin
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
No Man Left Behind
Author: Patrick Morley
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 9780802480040
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
David Murrow's book, Why Men Hate Going to Church, has heightened awareness of an epidemic--Patrick Morley offers the solution. No Man Left Behind is the blueprint for growing a thriving men's ministry that has the power to rebuild the church as we know it, pulling men off the couch and into active involvement as part of the body of Christ.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 9780802480040
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
David Murrow's book, Why Men Hate Going to Church, has heightened awareness of an epidemic--Patrick Morley offers the solution. No Man Left Behind is the blueprint for growing a thriving men's ministry that has the power to rebuild the church as we know it, pulling men off the couch and into active involvement as part of the body of Christ.
Female and Male: The Cultic Personnel: The Bible and the Rest of the Ancient Near East
Author: Richard A. Henshaw
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556350155
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556350155
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The circulation in plants, in the lower animals, and in man
Author: James Bell Pettigrew
Publisher:
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Chapters XVII-XX
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher:
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Category : Athanasianism
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Athanasianism
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Canadian Journal of Science, Literature and History
The Recent Origin of Man
Author: James Cocke Southall
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Cornelis Hofstede de Groot
Publisher:
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Journal of American Folklore
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Illustrations. Tenth Thousand
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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