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Lawnboy
Lawnboy
Author: Paul Lisicky
"Lawnboy is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty." —Michael Cunningham — They all thought I was good-natured, upright and responsible, generous, affectionate, and kind, and of course I could be those things, but there was much more to me than that, a side that unnerved even myself, and this sid...  more »

Seventeen-year-old Evan’s adventure begins with mowing a neighbor’s lawn, a summer job that leads him into an unpredictable world of desire and betrayal. Estranged from his parents and his older brother, he moves in with forty-one-year-old William and begins a disastrous series of attempts to make a new home. Must he make a choice between his family and desire? First published to wide acclaim in 1999, Lawnboy wanders the lush and tumultuous landscape of the early 1990s, its south Florida setting as fertile and troubling as Evan’s inner life.
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ISBN-13: 9781555974480
ISBN-10: 1555974481
Publication Date: 6/27/2006
Pages: 384
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Graywolf Press
Book Type: Paperback
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