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

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Selgin, Peter

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9781609380571
1609380576

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Confessions of a left-handed man.DDC classification:

813/.6 22

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PS3619.E463 Z46 2011eb

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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.

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℗¡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.

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