Here is elsewhere.(The Firebrat)(Book Review) From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The Firebrat By David McConnell AttaGirl Press. 246 pages, $22.

DAVID McConnell's luminous first novel, The Firebrat, is a hall of mirrors, a self-reflecting work of art that opens vistas into infinity. At its start Elliot, the narrator, is worrying over a short story he has written, a thinly-veiled piece of fiction about someone he knows casually at his gym. Even though the story depicts this acquaintance in less than an ideal light--"I'd mentioned an ironic appearance as a pinup, and the possibility he had AIDS"--Elliot has given the "gym guy" a copy of it. At the same ...

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