Setting the Lawn on Fire
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: October 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780299213404
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; Gay; Fiction / Gay; Americans; Gay youth; Jewish youth; Mexico
Description: 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.