Books by Peter Selgin and Complete Book Reviews
Peter Selgin, Author . Univ. of Georgia $24.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-8203-3210-9
The stories in Selgin's often masterful debut collection (winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) focus on faulty passions and dysfunctional romances. The most wickedly satisfying is “My Search for Red and Gray Wide-S
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Peter Selgin. Univ. of Iowa, $19.95 trade paper (244p) ISBN 978-1-60938-056-4
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. First, Selgin was a visual artist, a mentally and physically...
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Peter Selgin. Regal House, $19.95 trade paper (308p) ISBN 978-1-64603-511-3
Selgin (Drowning Lessons) channels the boomer nostalgia of The Wonder Years in this affecting story of a Florida retiree’s 1960s adolescence. As a boy, Leo “Half” Napoli avidly followed the space race and dreamt of becoming an astronaut. Reflecting...
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