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Blue Bicycle Books Charleston Author Series Luncheon with award-winning writer Peter Selgin
Join us Friday, April 22nd at noon for Blue Bicycle Books Charleston Author Series luncheon at Halls Chophouse, when author Peter Selgin discusses his non-fiction memoir, "The Inventors."
Tickets are only $30 for the author talk and delicious three-course luncheon at Halls Chophouse, or $49 that includes the luncheon plus a signed, soft cover copy of "The Inventors." Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Of course, there is a full-service cash bar for your enjoyment.
About the Book:
In the Fall of 1970, at the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher whod arrived from Oxford wearing Frye boots, with long blond hair, and a passion for his students that was as intense as it was rebellious. The son of an emotionally remote inventor, Peter was also a twin competing for the attention and affection of his parents. He had a burning need to feel special.
The new teacher supplied that need. Together they spent hours in the teachers carriage house, discussing books, playing chess, drinking tea, and wrestling. They were inseparable, until the teacher resigned from his job and left.
Over the next ten years Peter and the teacher corresponded copiously and met occasionally, their last meeting ending in disaster. Only after the teacher died did Peter learn that hed done all he could to evade his past, identifying himself first as an orphaned Rhodes Scholar, and later as a Native American.
As for Peters father, the genius with the English accent who invented the first dollar-bill changing machine, he was the child of Italian Jewssomething else Peter discovered only after his death. Paul Selgin and the teacher were both self-inventors, creatures of their own mythology, inscrutable men whose denials and deceptions betrayed the trust of the boy who looked up to them.
The Inventors is the story of a mans search for his father and a boys passionate relationship with his teacher, of how these two enigmas shaped that boys journey into manhood, filling him with a sense of his own unique destiny. It is a story of promises kept and broken as the author uncovers the truthabout both men, and about himself. For like themlike all of us Peter Selgin, too, is his own inventor.
About the Author:
Peter Selgin is the author of "Drowning Lessons," winner of the Flannery OConnor Award for Fiction, a novel, two books on fiction writing, and several childrens books.
"Confessions of a Left-Handed Man," his memoir-in-essays, was short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize. His novel, "The Water Master," won the Wisdom/Faulkner Society Prize for Best Novel. His essays have won many awards and honors, including six citations and two selections for the Best American anthologies, in which the title essay of his collection appears.
Selgins drama, "A God in the House," based on Dr. Kevorkian and his suicide machine, was staged at the Eugene ONeill National Playwrights Conference in 1991. Other plays of his have won the Charlotte Repertory New Play Festival Competition, the Mill Mountain New Plays Competition, and the Stage 3 Theater Festival of New Plays.
Selgin is the prose editor of "Alimentum: The Literature of Food" and nonfiction editor and art director of "Arts & Letters." He is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia College and an associate faculty member of Antioch Universitys Creative Writing MFA program in Los Angeles.
Tickets are $30 for lunch plus tax and processing fee, or $49 for lunch and a signed, soft cover copy of "The Inventors." Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating provides an intimate experience with the author. There is a cash bar bar for your enjoyment.
Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street, where the luncheon and discussion will take place.
Parking is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets, the Camden Exchange Garage between John and Hutson Streets, or at meters on the street.
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LocationHalls Chophouse (View)
434 King Street Street
Charleston, SC 29403
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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