Clark Blaise's Lunar Attractions is the story of David Greenwood, the fantasy-driven son of a too-charming, two-timing furniture salesman. David is cerebral, sensitive, sickly, and inexperienced -- but when a shocking sexual awakening propels him into a world of murder and extortion, his adolescent illusions are stripped bare, and his relationship with his father changes forever. Sensuous and excoriatingly harsh, in prose that ebbs and peaks with near-painful perfect, Lunar Attractions is a turbulent plunge into the corruption, petty crime, and moral decay that hides below the surface of 1950s American life.