John Rechy - Free Library Land Online

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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. The author's most daring work, After the Blue Hour is narrated by a twenty-four-year-old writer named John Rechy. Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, he accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late thirties, his beautiful mistress, and his precocious teenage son. Browsing Paul's library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evening's “blue hour," John feels surcease, until, with unabashed candor, Paul shares intimate details of his life. Through cunning seductive charm, he married and divorced an ambassador's daughter and the heiress to a vast fortune. Avoiding identifying his son's mother, he reveals an affinity for erotic “dangerous games." With...]]> Tue, 01 Nov 2016 23:02:48 +0200 The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71024-the_miraculous_day_of_amalia_gomez.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71024-the_miraculous_day_of_amalia_gomez.html

In The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, Amalia Gomez thinks she sees a large silver cross in the sky. A miraculous sign, perhaps, but one the down-to-earth Amalia does not trust. Through Amalia, we take a vivid and moving tour of the "other Hollywood," populated by working-class Mexican Americans, as John Rechy blends tough realism with religious and cultural fables to take us into the life of a Chicano family in L.A. Epic in scope and vision, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez is classic Rechy.]]> Thu, 01 Nov 2001 23:02:47 +0200 Rushes https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71018-rushes.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71018-rushes.html Rushes

Once again, John Rechy takes us to an unexplored part of our world in Rushes, his first book following the controversial bestseller, The Sexual Outlaw.

The story develops during a single evening and is set in a “leather and Western” bar located near the decaying and deserted waterfront of a large American city. This is the sexual battlefield, the world of the trucks, the piers, the warehouses. And Rechy explores it with a compelling, dramatic story told in a style that is elegant, convincing, and unsparing.

Into the bar arrives a range of characters: the regular patrons in their ceaseless search for compatible love, the occasional customer hoping for a quick sexual fix, the female and transvestite hookers who work the dark streets outside, the couple seeking a voyeuristic experience, the young man venturing out for the first time.

During the course of the evening we come to know these people, their loneliness and their fears, their...]]> Thu, 01 Nov 1979 23:02:46 +0300 The Sexual Outlaw https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71017-the_sexual_outlaw.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71017-the_sexual_outlaw.html

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 in the 1970s--the "battlefield" of the sexual outlaw. Using the language and techniqus of the film, Rechy deftly intercuts the despairing, joyful, and defiant confessions of a male hustler with the "chorus" of his own subversive reflections on sexual identity and sexual politics, and with stark documentary reports our society directs against homosexuals--"the only minority against whose existence there are laws."]]> Mon, 01 Nov 1999 23:02:46 +0200 The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71019-the_life_and_adventures_of_lyle_clemens.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71019-the_life_and_adventures_of_lyle_clemens.html

Modeled on the classic 18th-century picaresques like Fielding’s The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling and Defoe’s Moll Flanders, The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens is the modern-day bildungsroman of a prodigiously attractive young Texan named Lyle Clemens. Lyle is kind of a holy fool who, like Chance in Being There, illuminates the actions, motivations, and prejudices of others through his lack of cynicism. He is a simple babe, in the woods of Texas and Los Angeles.

Lyle’s mother, Sylvia, is a beautiful woman who was raised Pentecostal and rebelled against her mother through sexuality—but her dreams to become Miss America were dashed by her mother in a particularly traumatic way, and Lyle’s father (Lyle the First, a dashing cowboy), who consoled her in her time of need, left her when she became pregnant, leaving only money for an abortion Sylvia never got. Sylvia never talks about her own childhood or Lyle I, and takes refuge in alcohol; an...]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2003 23:02:46 +0200 Bodies and Souls https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71025-bodies_and_souls.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71025-bodies_and_souls.html

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, a Chicano caught up in the punk-rock scene; and Dave Clinton, an aging male stripper. Epic in scope and vision, Bodies and Souls is classic Rechy.]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:02:47 +0200 Marilyn's Daughter https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71020-marilyns_daughter.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71020-marilyns_daughter.html

A modern epic that follows a young woman as she travels to Los Angeles and delves deep into the maze of untold Hollywood history in order to determine whether she is Marilyn Monroe's secret lovechild]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:02:47 +0200 This Day's Death https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71022-this_days_death.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71022-this_days_death.html

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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 and is told by a mystic that her dreams are memories of past lives and that she must face the public to vindicate all women falsely accused of crimes.]]> Sun, 01 Nov 1998 23:02:48 +0200 City of Night https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71026-city_of_night.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71026-city_of_night.html

John Rechy, recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote City of Night in 1963. This radical and daring work, which launched Rechy’s reputation as one of America’s most courageous novelists, remains the classic document of the garish neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and men on the make who inhabited the homosexual underground of the early sixties.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Vampires https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71031-the_vampires.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71031-the_vampires.html

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.]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:02:48 +0200 Numbers https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71021-numbers.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71021-numbers.html Numbers

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 attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the "numbers," the men who will confirm his desirability, and with the hungry focus of a man on borrowed time, he stalks the dark balconies of all-night theaters, the hot sands of gay beaches, and shady glens of city parks, attempting to attract shadowy sex-hunters in an obcessive battle against the passing of his youth.]]> Thu, 01 Nov 1984 23:02:47 +0300 The Fourth Angel https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71023-the_fourth_angel.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71023-the_fourth_angel.html

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 kicks, they explore the hot, dusty city, bent on trouble.]]> Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:02:47 +0200 The Coming of the Night https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71029-the_coming_of_the_night.html https://animals.library.land/john-rechy/71029-the_coming_of_the_night.html

John Rechy's new novel is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling City of Night and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world -- gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. It is 1981, a summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Young, beautiful Jesse is celebrating one year on the dazzling gay scene and plans to lose himself completely in its transient pleasures. He is joined by Dave, a leatherman bent on testing limits. A young hustler, an opera lover lost in fantasies of youth, a gang of teenagers looking for trouble -- as the Santa Ana winds breathe fire down the hills of Los Angeles, stirring up desires and violence, these men circle ever closer to a confrontation as devastating as it is inevitable. Lyrical, humorous, and compassionate, The Coming of the Night proves again that as a novelist and chronicler of gay life John Rechy has no equal. "The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy's sizzling literary...]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2003 23:02:48 +0200