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Setting the Lawn on Fire Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Mack Friedman


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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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  • Title Setting the Lawn on Fire
  • Author Mack Friedman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 147
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI
  • Date October 7, 2005
  • ISBN 9780299213404 / 0299213404
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.12 x 6.34 x 0.73 in (23.16 x 16.10 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Bildungsromans, Young men
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005005441
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Mack Friedman is the author of Strapped for Cash: A History of American Hustler Culture. His essays have been featured at the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art and the Leslie-Lohman Gallery, and his performance art has been showcased at the Andy Warhol Museum. His stories have appeared in the anthologies Obsessed, Wonderlands, and Barnstorm. This is his first novel.
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