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.

About the Author
Mack Friedman is 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 Between Men, Wonderlands, and Barnstorm. He has contributed to the magazines Out Traveler and Spread, among others. This is his first novel. He lives in Pennsylvania.

Reviews
Brilliant... A tribute to the power of a first-class imagination to rethink what has become a venerable genre - the coming out novel.... The best gay debut novel l've read in quite a long time. - Edmund White, Out



Book Information
ISBN 9780299213442
Author Mack Friedman
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 250g