“Rechy’s writings are carefully conceived and executed, with as much emphasis on symbolism and structure as on developing characters and delineating settings specific to gay culture. A substantial artist.” -Frank Browning, Salon has spent his life excavating the cracks at the periphery of American culture, feeling his way toward that place within each of us where the ecstatic teeters on the edge of psychic abyss. “The country’s most important author on homosexual life in America.” -Gerald Fraser, The New York Times He has given us life and literature.” -Michael Bronski “What John Rechy has given us for more than thirty years is a wonderful and terrifying gift. Rechys infamous debut follows a young male hustler as. John Rechy, a prophet of liberation John Rechy, at home in Los Angeles, is the charismatic 87-year-old writer whose City of Night, published in 1963, is a landmark of gay literature. In his endlessly inventive style, he is entirely modern.” -Edmund White A stark but compassionate account of queer subculture and sex work in 1950s and 60s North America. a touchstone of moral integrity and artistic innovation. “One of the heroic figures of contemporary American life.
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