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 past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self.Like a retired boxer—an undefeated champion—who refuses to accept the possible ravages of time, Johnny is...

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 from all other stories of its kind, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Jean Genet and Jack Kerouac, even as Rechy—who had based the novel on his own life—was pe...

The "shocking, erotic, and suspenseful" winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction from the author of City of Night ( Out Magazine).John Rechy's first novel, City of Night, an international bestseller, is considered a modern classic. Subsequent work asserts his place among America's most important writers. The author's most daring work, After the Blue Hour is narrated by a twenty-four-year-old writer named John Rech...

The long-awaited memoir by "one of the few original American writers of the last century" is a testament to the power of self-acceptance (Gore Vidal).John Rechy, author of City of Night and The Sexual Outlaw, has always known discrimination. Raised Mexican-American in El Paso, Texas, at a time when Latino children were routinely segregated, Rechy was often assumed to be Anglo because of his light skin, and had his name "changed" for him by a teach...

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 large silver cross in the sky. Does this vision foretell a miracle? The pragmatic, twice-divorced Amalia is doubtful . . .Amalia's neighborhood—a decaying area near a shabby part of Hollywood Boulevard—is under attack f...

"A funny, sexy, far-fetched coming-of-age story" from the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of City of Night ( The Washington Post).John Rechy—described by Gore Vidal as "one of the few original writers of the last century"—delivers a riotous bildungsroman that pays homage to the classic eighteenth-century picaresque.Loosely inspired by Fielding's Tom Jones, The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens ...

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 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. There are three "angels"—Shell, Cob, and Mann...

"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 of the modern classic City of Night, Bodies and Souls is a portrait of modern Los Angeles on an epic scale, "the most spiritual and physical of cities." Gorgeous, seedy, and striving, the Los Angeles of Rechy's ima...

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 suddenly take over the lives of a group of people, exposing and shaping their destinies.Richard, a millionaire who is the epitome of male beauty, is the host to a gathering of carefully selected friends for the...

A "tour de force" novel from the groundbreaking author of City of Night and one of the premier chroniclers of gay life in America ( Los Angeles Times).John Rechy takes us inside a "leather and Western" bar located near the deserted waterfront of a large American city. This is a sexual battlefield—a world of trucks, piers, and warehouses—depicted in Rechy's "eloquent, convincing, basically unsparing" prose (Herbert Gold).The bar regulars ar...

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 is about to take place. Jesse, "the kid," is celebrating one year on the dazzling gay scene and plans to lose himself in its transient pleasures. Clint has fled New York with a sense of unease in the wake of a vic...

"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-century lady who realizes that these women's lives bear a remarkable resemblance to her own. Told by a mystic that her dreams are memories of past lives, she must face the public to vindicate all women false...