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  • OUR LADY OF BABYLON
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    OUR LADY OF BABYLON
    JOHN RECHY
    "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 ...

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  • MARILYN'S DAUGHTER
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    MARILYN'S DAUGHTER
    JOHN RECHY
    A vivid reimagining of the life and legacy of Marilyn Monroe: "A massive, magnetic story by a major American novelist writing at the peak of his powers" ( San Francisco Chronicle).   When eighteen-year-old Normalyn discovers a letter asserting that Marilyn Monroe was her true mother, she travels from Texas to Los Angeles to uncover the truth . . . and ventures deep into a maze ...

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  • ABOUT MY LIFE AND THE KEPT WOMAN
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    ABOUT MY LIFE AND THE KEPT WOMAN
    JOHN RECHY
    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 Angl...

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  • THE COMING OF THE NIGHT
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    THE COMING OF THE NIGHT
    JOHN RECHY
    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 plea...

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  • THE MIRACULOUS DAY OF AMALIA GÓMEZ
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    THE MIRACULOUS DAY OF AMALIA GÓMEZ
    JOHN RECHY
    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 neighborho...

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  • NUMBERS
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    NUMBERS
    JOHN RECHY
    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 und...

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  • BODIES AND SOULS
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    BODIES AND SOULS
    JOHN RECHY
    "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, seed...

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  • AFTER THE BLUE HOUR
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    AFTER THE BLUE HOUR
    JOHN RECHY
    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 n...

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  • THIS DAY'S DEATH
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    THIS DAY'S DEATH
    JOHN RECHY
    A novel on the legality of love from the author of City of Night, "one of the few original American writers of the last century" (Gore Vidal, public intellectual and author of I Told You So).   A man confronts the twin nightmares of death and silent injustice in John Rechy's third novel. While juggling the care of his ailing mother, a young law student stands trial in Los Angel...

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  • THE VAMPIRES
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    THE VAMPIRES
    JOHN RECHY
    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 bea...

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  • THE FOURTH ANGEL
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    THE FOURTH ANGEL
    JOHN RECHY
    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 o...

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  • THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF LYLE CLEMENS
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    THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF LYLE CLEMENS
    JOHN RECHY
    "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...

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  • RUSHES
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    RUSHES
    JOHN RECHY
    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, convinc...

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  • THE SEXUAL OUTLAW
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    THE SEXUAL OUTLAW
    JOHN RECHY
    From the award-winning writer, "a passionate manifesto for gay rights by an author who openly and unapologetically identifies himself as a participant" ( People).   In this angry, eloquent outcry against the oppression of homosexuals, the author of the classic City of Night gives "an explosive non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underg...

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