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Life Goes to the Movies

✍ Scribed by Selgin, Peter

Book ID
109254463
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
152 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781936873845

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A tour de force, Life Goes to the Movies is the love story of two straight men: a dark devil of a Vietnam vet-turned-filmmaker, and the naive Italian American innocent who follows him to the edge of madness and beyond. Funny, engaging, and entertaining, this is just a great story told well.

Peter Selgin's short story collection Drowning Lessons won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He's also published book-length nonfiction and an award-winning children's book. He's the fiction editor of Alimentum: The Literature of Food.

"Wonderfully innovative and elegantly crafted, Life Goes to the Movies brims with exuberance and wit.Β  Both a celebrationand something of an elegy for the golden age of Hollywood, this novel reeled me in with its propulsive energy and won me over before I had finished chaper one."

-- Frederick Reiken, author of The Lost Legends of New Jersey

"Life Goes to the Movies is the...

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