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Porter Square Books
Wednesday, June 17 at 7:00pm - Book Launch Party for LIFE GOE...
The Mercantile Library Center for F...
Thursday, May 7 at 6:30pm
Life Goes to the Movies
is now available through Dzanc Books. Get your copy today! http://dzancbooks.org/store/selgin-life.
Life Goes to the Movies Peter Selgin, author of the new book, Life Goes to the Movies (Dzanc Books) and Steve Almond, author of Not That You Asked (Random House), will be reading at the wonderful Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA. Join them for a night of fun and words on June 17th.
Two great authors, one great nigh!
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, June 17th
Location:Porter Square Books
Life Goes to the Movies PRE-ORDER "LIFE GOES TO THE MOVIES" NOW ON THE DZANC BOOKS WEB SITE!
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“Wonderfully inventive and elegantly crafted, Life Goes to the Movies brims with exuberance and wit. Both a celebration and something of an elegy for the golden age of Hollywood, this novel reeled ...
Life Goes to the Movies wants to remind you that if you're in New York, you should stop by the Mercantile Library Center around 6:30pm on May 7th to celebrate the release of Life Goes to the Movies.
Life Goes to the Movies
Come join in the fun and help us celebrate the release of Life Goes to the Movies, the new book by Peter Selgin.
About the book: When Vietnam-veteran-turned-film-maker Dwaine Fitzgibbon (“D for Death, W for War, A for Anarchy, I for Insane, N for Nightmare, and E for the End of the World”) takes Nigel DePoli under his ...wing to teach him about movies and life, Nigel thinks he’s found the perfect antidote to his small-town, immigrant child’s upbringing. But Dwaine is arguably insane, and the greatest movie they’ll ever collaborate on is the one he produces in Nigel’s gullible, hero-addled mind. Their erotically tinged friendship is the subject of what one sly reader has called an “anti-homophobic” novel, a bond strengthened but also tested by their mutual love for Veronica “Venus” Dwiggins, a beautiful albino costume designer. With Dwaine less and less able or willing to distinguish between reality and cinema, Nigel must choose between sanity and loyalty. The story climaxes with Nigel’s gambit to rescue Dwaine from the psychiatric ward where he has taken flight, a scheme involving a considerable budget, a cast and crew of hospitalized V-vets, and the world’s most famous soft-drink.
“Wonderfully inventive and elegantly crafted, Life Goes to the Movies brims with exuberance and wit. Both a celebration and 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 chapter one.”
—Frederick Reiken, author of The Lost Legends of New Jersey
"Love, madness and the movies come together in the dazzling, intoxicating story of a young man’s obsessive friendship with a Vietnam vet.”
—Anne Landsman, author of The Rowing Lesson
“Life Goes to the Movies is the irresistible account of a passionate friendship between two young men, both star-struck by art. Selgin’s vivid account of New York in the 1970s, his richly complex characters, his encyclopedic knowledge of film and his sense of how small the gap is between good luck and bad make this an utterly absorbing novel. A wonderful read.”
—Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street
“Peter Selgin’s novel is sheer delight—a delicious tale of love, and of America’s ongoing love affair with movies. It is offbeat, compelling, and filled with memorable tales told by a splendid storyteller. Anyone who loves movies—or would love to make a movie!—will love Life Goes to the Movies.” —Jay Neugeboren, author of 1940 and Imagining Robert
“Peter Selgin fulfills the promise of Drowning Lessons, his fearless first book of stories, in this first novel, with its layers haunted with film lore and by its car-accident-in-progress protagonist. Each sentence dips into light to bear up surprising scenes.”
—Donald Newlove, author of The Painter Gabriel
“With Life Goes To The Movies, Peter Selgin aims far higher than most of us poor storytellers ever dare. From beginning to end, I kept imagining the funnels of smoke that surely must have risen from his keyboard as he wrote this potent, superbly crafted, and wonderfully ambitious novel.”
—Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff
Join us in celebrating the release of Peter Selgin's fantastic new book!
Time:6:30PM Thursday, May 7th
Location:The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction
“Wonderfully inventive and elegantly crafted, Life Goes to the Movies brims with exuberance and wit. ...
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