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City of Night
John Rechy

Grove Press, 1963

Early and quite controversial (for the time) novel about the gay scene in the America of between World War II and the creation of the interstate road system.

City of Night (Rechy, John)

25 reviews
John Rechy

Grove Press, 1994

FIGHT THE POWER!,
John Rechy's book, City of Night, was published in 1962 just before the Supreme Court opened up the floodgate to the publishers of cheap porn in 1965. He will most likely be remembered as a gay male writer who was a brutal and lyrical recorder of the sexual underworld in pre-Stonewall times. It must be difficult for anyone who didn't live through those times to grasp how heavily the threat of ...

About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir

12 reviews
John Rechy

Grove Press, 2008

Rechy remembers
As a preface to his compelling new memoir, El Paso native John Rechy offers a two-line caveat: "This is not what happened; it is what is remembered. Its sequence is the sequence of recollection." In this day of scandalously false memoirs, it is certainly refreshing to read such words. But Rechy's story is, by now, well known to those who have read his critically acclaimed 1963 ...

The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez

1 review
John Rechy

Grove Press, 2001

Hauntingly Powerful
Gorgeous prose graces every page of this book! The ending is one of the truly all-time greats -- the work of a master at his peak. The story will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of faith. Don't be put off by the book's small size -- this novel packs a punch, well after you've put it down!