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Setting the Lawn on Fire

Setting the Lawn on Fire

Friedman, Mack

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ISBN10: 0299213404
ISBN13: 9780299213404
Publisher: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Published: Oct 7 2005
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards, Triangle Awards

Setting the Lawn on Fire, the first novel by critically acclaimed writer Mack Friedman, trails its narrator through his obsessions with sex, drugs, art, and poison. Ivan, a young Jewish boy from Milwaukee, embarks on a journey of sexual discovery that leads him from Wisconsin to Alaska, Philadelphia, and Mexico through stints as a fishery worker, artist, and finally a hustler who learns to provide the blank canvas for other people's dreams. The result is a new kind of coming-of-age story that sees passion from every angle because its protagonist is every kind of lover: the seducer and the seduced, the pornographer and the model, the hunter and the prey, the trick and the john. In the end, Setting the Lawn on Fire is also something rare--a fully realized, contemporary romance that illuminates the power of desire and the rituals of the body, the brain, and the heart that attempt to contain our passions.

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