"The Child is the eleventh and perhaps most controversial book by acclaimed lesbian writer Sarah Schulman, available for the first time in paperback. This novel explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia. Stew is a fifteen-year-old boy who goes online looking for an older man to have sex with. But when his older boyfriend is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting, his life is exposed to his family and town. Devastated by these revelations and left to fend for himself, he ends up committing murder. Brazen and daring in its themes, The Child is a powerful indictment of sex panic in America, and a plaintive meditation on isolation and desire."--Jacket.
- ISBN10 0786718668
- ISBN13 9780786718665
- Publish Date 10 May 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avalon Publishing Group
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English