Lawnboy

Lawnboy

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<p><B>"<I>Lawnboy</I> is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty." ―Michael Cunningham</B></p><p><I>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 side included William.</I><br><B><I></I></B><br><B><I></B></I>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, <I>Lawnboy </I>by Paul Lisicky wanders the lush and tumultuous landscape of the early 1990s, its south Florida setting as fertile and troubling as Evan's inner life.</p>