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Maria DeGuzman
In this first book-length monograph on the Mexican American novelist, essayist, and playwright John Rechy, best known for his debut novel City of Night, Maria DeGuzman offers a conceptually clear…
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John Rechy
John Rechy’s first novel, City of Night, an international bestseller, is considered a modern classic. Subsequent work asserts his place among America’s most important writers. His most daring work yet…
Originally written in 1948-49 when John Rechy (City of Night) was 18 years old, Pablo! was never published and has languished in Special Collections at Boston University. An unusual novel…
This funny coming-of-age story follows Lyle Clemens as he travels through the religious fundamentalist world of Texas to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas and the enticing traps of Los…
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This angry, elegant outcry against homosexual oppression is an explosive nonfiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground of Los Angeles in the seventies.
Book jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied…
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A moving, harsh, and tender novel about one day in the life of a Mexican-American, by the bestselling author of City of Night and Marilyn’s Daughter.
Rechy returns to the themes and scenes from his best-selling City of Night and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world–gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. Set in…
In Bodies and Souls, Rechy paints a portrait of modern Los Angeles, the most spiritual and physical of cities, where we meet characters like Amber, a porn superstar; Manny Gomez…
Rechy, author of City of Night, writes openly about his life as a Mexican-American, in a powerful story that bears witness to some of the most riotous changes of the…
This is the compelling, ferociously relevant story of four teenagers playing deadly games with drugs, sex, and one another. Behind a facade of tough cynicism, on a raging search for…
The taboo-busting 1960s classic that gave voice to a hidden subculture.
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