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“john rechy”

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  • City of Night

    by John Rechy ...
    The cult classic novel from "one of the few major American writers whose life is as interesting, and meaningful, as his work" (Michael Cunningham).When John Rechy's explosive first book appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure from all other stories of its kind, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Jean Genet and Jack ... Read more

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  • The Sexual Outlaw

    A Documentary

    by John Rechy ...
    From the award-winning writer, "a passionate manifesto for gay rights by an author who openly and unapologetically identifies himself as a participant" ( People).In this angry, eloquent outcry against the oppression of homosexuals, the author of the classic City of Night gives "an explosive non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground" of Los Angeles ... Read more

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  • This Day's Death

    A Novel

    by John Rechy ...
    A novel on the legality of love from the author of City of Night, "one of the few original American writers of the last century" (Gore Vidal, public intellectual and author of I Told You So).A man confronts the twin nightmares of death and silent injustice in John Rechy's third novel. While juggling the care of his ailing mother, a young law student stands trial in Los Angeles on a charge that ... Read more

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  • Our Lady of Babylon

    A Novel

    by John Rechy ...
    "A funny, sexy, stylistically elegant, tongue-in-cheek rewriting of history" from the New York Times–bestselling author of City of Night ( Booklist).A retelling of the stories of the fallen women of history, recounted by an eighteenth-century lady who realizes that these women's lives bear a remarkable resemblance to her own. Told by a mystic that her dreams are memories of past lives, she must ... Read more

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  • Marilyn's Daughter

    by John Rechy ...
    A vivid reimagining of the life and legacy of Marilyn Monroe: "A massive, magnetic story by a major American novelist writing at the peak of his powers" ( San Francisco Chronicle).When eighteen-year-old Normalyn discovers a letter asserting that Marilyn Monroe was her true mother, she travels from Texas to Los Angeles to uncover the truth . . . and ventures deep into a maze of untold Hollywood ... Read more

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  • The Vampires

    by John Rechy ...
    The award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of City of Night delivers a novel of manipulation, sexuality, and the supernatural.On a beautiful private island somewhere in the Caribbean, the rituals of witchcraft and Satanism suddenly take over the lives of a group of people, exposing and shaping their destinies.Richard, a millionaire who is the epitome of male beauty, is the host to a ... Read more

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  • About My Life and the Kept Woman

    A Memoir

    by John Rechy ...
    The long-awaited memoir by "one of the few original American writers of the last century" is a testament to the power of self-acceptance (Gore Vidal).John Rechy, author of City of Night and The Sexual Outlaw, has always known discrimination. Raised Mexican-American in El Paso, Texas, at a time when Latino children were routinely segregated, Rechy was often assumed to be Anglo because of his light ... Read more

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  • The Coming of the Night

    by John Rechy ...
    A stunning evocation of gay desire in the moment just before AIDs by the acclaimed author of City of Night: "Taut writing and unapologetic sexual energy" ( The Dallas Morning News).It is 1981, a hot summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Jesse, "the kid," is celebrating one year on the dazzling gay scene and plans to lose himself in its transient pleasures. Clint has fled ... Read more

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  • The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez

    by John Rechy ...
    A Los Angeles Latina woman living in poverty and hoping for miracles "comes to stunning and heartbreaking life" in this novel from an award-winning author ( Newsday).On a hot, still day in May, Amalia Gómez sees—or thinks she sees—a large silver cross in the sky. Does this vision foretell a miracle? The pragmatic, twice-divorced Amalia is doubtful . . .Amalia's neighborhood—a decaying area near a ... Read more

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  • The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

    A Novel

    by John Rechy ...
    "A funny, sexy, far-fetched coming-of-age story" from the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of City of Night ( The Washington Post).John Rechy—described by Gore Vidal as "one of the few original writers of the last century"—delivers a riotous bildungsroman that pays homage to the classic eighteenth-century picaresque.Loosely inspired by Fielding's Tom Jones, The Life and Adventures ... Read more

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  • Numbers

    by John Rechy ...
    An aging male hustler wages an obsessive battle against the passing of his youth in this darkly compelling follow-up to the cult hit City of Night.Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self.Like a retired boxer—an undefeated champion—who ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Angel

    by John Rechy ...
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of City of Night: a "powerful work that may very well be Rechy's best" ( Kirkus Reviews).Compelling and ferociously relevant, The Fourth Angel is the story of four teenagers playing deadly games with drugs, sex, and one another. Behind a facade of tough cynicism, on a raging search for kicks, they explore the hot, dusty city, bent on trouble. There are ... Read more

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