Duplicity by Peter Selgin
Dispatched by their mother to learn why his estranged twin brother Gregory (or "Brock Jones, PhD," as he's known to fans of his bestselling self-help book Coffee, Black) has disappeared, Stewart Detweiler drives 1,500 miles to find his twin hanging from a ceiling beam in their deceased father's lakeside A-frame. But instead of reporting him dead, Stewart decides to become him. As he sees it, he's not taking his brother's life; he's saving it. In turn he will at last gain an audience for his novel-in-perpetual-progress the plot of which bears an uncanny resemblance to this one. At first Stewart's plan goes smoothly. But before long the motives behind his brother's suicide emerge, pointing to intrigue, extortion, and desperate measures taken with disastrous results. The bonds of family; success and failure; philosophy and quantum mechanics; the ways in which we can - and cannot - rewrite our own lives: DUPLICITY weaves all of these together while vivisecting its own genre.Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Prize for Fiction, Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, and several children's books are among Peter Selgin's works. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir, his book, was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Award in 2012. The Water Master, his most recent novel, won the Pirate's Alley/William Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel. The Missouri Review Editors' Prize, a Dana Award for the Essay, and a Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference Award for his full-length play, A God in the Home, based on Dr. Kevorkian and his suicide machine, are among his other achievements. He teaches at Antioch University's MFA Creative Writing Program and is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia College and State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781947175433 |
| ISBN 10 | 1947175432 |
| Title | Duplicity |
| Author | Peter Selgin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Serving House Books |
| Year published | 2020-12-07 |
| Number of pages | 396 |
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