Setting the lawn on fire - a novel by Mack Friedman

Hardcover book.  Book in good condition.  Ex-library book.  147 pages.  Gay interest.

Setting the Lawn on Fire , the first novel by critically acclaimed writer Mack Friedman, trails its narrator through his obsessions. 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 peoples 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 the seducer and the seduced and the model, the hunter and the prey, the trick and the john. In the end, Setting the Lawn on Fire is also something rarea 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.