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An innovative description of the urban underworld of male prostitution. Rechy portrays a nameless narrator as he travels through several US cities, meeting a collection of unforgettable characters, from drag queens and criminals to the bedridden Professor and Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with brutal candour and understanding but without sentimentality or self-pity, in a prose that is highly personal, vivid and boldly descriptive. Rechy has never equalled in later novels the dynamism and freshness of City of Night. In that groundbreaking book he was... observing a whole new array of characters: drag queens, the still-beautiful boy living dangerously beyond his sell-by date, the guilt-ridden married men eaten up by desire and remorse, the vice cops and fag hags they re all there, many of them for the first time in American literature... this classic American novel. --Edmund White
Absolutely true... He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. --James Baldwin
An American classic, with its loner hero, its juke joints and neon signs, its restless shifting from city to city, bed to bed; a hybrid of On the Road and Catcher in the Rye.
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Absolutely true... He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. --James Baldwin
An American classic, with its loner hero, its juke joints and neon signs, its restless shifting from city to city, bed to bed; a hybrid of On the Road and Catcher in the Rye.
A breathless, amphetamine-fuelled dash across America... Rechy s descriptive energy is instead reserved for city life s twilight world and a colourful parade of characters... his descriptive energy surpasses any queer literature label. --New Statesman
John Rechy's groundbreaking novel `City of Night' lifted the lid on gay life in `60's America... it broke new ground with its depiction of the gay sexual subculture in America's cities... The author is ripe for rediscovery... uncensored for the first time. --Time Out
City of Night put a light up to the murky gay underworld of 60s America... The author was praised for his Benzedrine-fuelled prose and his pitch-perfect ear for period slang... A modern classic. --Boyz
John Rechy's groundbreaking novel `City of Night' lifted the lid on gay life in `60's America... it broke new ground with its depiction of the gay sexual subculture in America's cities... The author is ripe for rediscovery... uncensored for the first time. --Time Out
City of Night put a light up to the murky gay underworld of 60s America... The author was praised for his Benzedrine-fuelled prose and his pitch-perfect ear for period slang... A modern classic. --Boyz
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- ÉditeurSouvenir Press Ltd
- Date d'édition2009
- ISBN 10 0285638378
- ISBN 13 9780285638372
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages384
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Description du livre Etat : Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. N° de réf. du vendeur GRP18707658
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Description du livre Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Laminated photographic wrappers. Appears unread. Reprint of John Rechy's groundbreaking 1963 novel: 'a classic account of life on the edge'. *** John Rechy (born March 10, 1931) is among the pioneers of modern LGBT literature. City of Night follows a young man as he travels across the country while working as a hustler. Jim Morrison apparently references the book in the The Doors song L.A. Woman. ('Are you a lucky little lady in The City of Light? Or just another lost angel?City of Night.'). N° de réf. du vendeur 000369
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