John Rechy

• 1963
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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 fr...

• Jan-1975
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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 game...

• Jan-1978
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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 aut...

• Nov-1984
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“A memorable feast . . . powerful, chilling, moving . . . extraordinary” from the bestselling author of City of Night and The Sexual Outlaw (Los Angeles Times).   An exceptional novel from the bestselling author...

• Oct-1989
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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 assertin...

• Feb-1994
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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 p...

• Sep-1994
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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...

• Feb-1997
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• Oct-2000
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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 i...

• Oct-2001
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These two novels introduce us to two faces of the same terrain.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 A...

• Oct-2003
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From internationally renowned novelist John Rechy comes a riotous bildungsroman loosely inspired by Fielding's Tom Jones. The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens follows the journey of handsome Texan Lyle Clemens as he flees a cast of characters -- h...

• May-2013
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“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-ce...

• May-2013
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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 suddenl...

• Sep-2016
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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 an...

• Feb-2017
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Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, John 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...

• Apr-2018
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In a jungle village an old man sees a strange girl who has collapsed in a field. Once a holy man, he is sure she is not an evil spirit. He carries her inside and puts her in a hammock, despite his wife s warning that the girl is the evil Xtabay, pret...