A gay man and his erotic adventures in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Orleans, based on Rechy's own travels in the 1950s. This picaresque tour of gay culture was a bestseller when it was published in 1963, despite America's conservative attitudes at the time toward homosexuality.
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 ...
Rushes is a waterfront bar where gay men hang out; this novel is about their tumultuous relationships and their sexual preferences, particularly a man named Endor and his passion for sadomasochistic encounters.
When John Rechy broke out in 1963 as the bestselling author of City of Night, his novel about the underworld of gay male prostitution, he became a source for provocative commentary on sex, homosexuality, and culturally transgressive literature for publications as varied as the New York Times, The Nation, the Advocate, and Forum. Beneath the Skin ...
"Early on a hot day in Los Angeles, Amalia Gomez sees a large cross in the sky, but doesn't believe in her miracle. As this Saturday progresses, Amalia, a twice divorced Mexican-American mother of three, reviews her turbulent past and her present problems and discovers signs of hope." - Evanston Public Library
In John Rechy's satirical coming-of-age novel, Lyle Clemens searches for love and the meaning of life as he comes into contact with a bevy of eccentric characters, including a crooked televangelist team and an even crookeder pornographer.
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.
Rechy's novel presents a day in the lives of a group of gay men in 1981, before the AIDS crisis but during the legendary Santa Ana winds, which fan the flames of violence.
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 past century. Resonating with fierce individualism and utter candor, the work presents the portrait of a man who forged his own path.
Rechy reinvents the life of Hollywood's most glamorous legend as he tells theenthralling story of a young woman's attempt to discover her heritage and thetrue identity of her parents.
In the late eighteenth century, a Lady flees to her dead husband's chateau, accused of his murder. There she is haunted by highly charged dreams about infamous women and their lovers, including Adam, Paris, John the Baptist, Jason, and Cortes. Within her dreams, the Lady discovers that these women - all, like herself, involved in catastrophic ...
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 past century. Resonating with fierce individualism and utter candor, the work presents the portrait of a man who forged his own path.
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.
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.
Challenging the borders between autobiography, memory, history and fiction, this interactive memoir presents a diverse array of personal materials by and about John Rechy and sets them against larger collective histories of Chicano culture and the gay world. Drawing passages from all of Rechy's published novels, it also mines the outrageous ...
Volume 3 is a groundbreaking anthology which collects poems from five continents celebrating the erotic spirit in all of its forms. From the passion of sexual desire to the intense longing for spiritual union, this extraordinary bon voyage turns each page of "Van Gpgh's Ear" into an exciting discovery.
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.
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