The Inventors: A Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.11 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0989360474 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Becoming. Gerald Masel Creative types and introspective memoir writers, just love examining the lint inside their belly buttons. I know that I do: Every painting of empty bottles becomes a sort of self portrait of me at age 14, asking "But who AM I? Am I special?"In the hands of a magical storyteller (who by chance also has a fascinating or appealing personality) a memoir can turn into a brave venture into another's soul. The invention of lives Teri White Carns Peter Selgin’s new memoir, "The Inventors," recounts the two men in his life – his father, and an unnamed eighth-grade teacher – to whom he gives credit for shaping many of his views, his beliefs, and his vision for his life. As such, it is largely a memoir of childhood told in flashbacks, although we see enough of his adult life at various points to understand the ways in these m. A Powerful Memoir by Peter Selgin LenoreGay Often fiction grabs me more than memoir, but I found it difficult to put down this book. Selgin's writing goes deep from the beginning and holds the reader until the end. His dogged research into the lives of the two men whom he loved didn't end until he'd found all the information. His discoveries still left him with questions. With this book he had the courage to explore, examine and then write a
Selgin’s candor and intimacy bring to vivid life the Zen koan of how we become the people we become and how we somehow never really know who we are.Dinty W. It’s a riveting story, artfully constructed and told with wit, precision, and sensitivity.Joanna Scott, author of Everybody Loves SomebodyWonderfully innovative and elegantly crafted, Life Goes to the Movies brims with exuberance and wit. This is an intelligent and moving book, a gorgeous book, an important book.Bret Lot
They spent hours in the teacher’s cottage, discussing books, playing chess, drinking tea, and wrestling. The son of an emotionally remote inventor, Peter was also a twin with a burning need to feel unique.The teacher supplied that need. At the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher who’d arrived from Oxford in Frye boots, with long hair, and a passion for his students that was intense and unorthodox. Fall, 1970. Paul Selgin and the teacher were both self-inventors,” enigmatic men whose lies and denials betrayed the boy who idolized them.The Inventors is the story of how these men shaped the author’s journey to manhood, a story of promises fulfilled and broken as he uncovers the truth about both men, and about himself.For like themlike all of us Peter Selgin, too, is his own inventor.. They were inseparable, until the teacher resigned.” Over the next decade they met occasionally and corresponded constantly, their last meeting a disaster. Only after he died did Peter learn that the teacher had completely fabricated his past.As for Peter’s father, the British-accented genius inventor, he turned out to be the son of prominent Italian Jews