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City of Night (Rechy, John)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802130839
ISBN: 0802130836
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: January 13, 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press
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Editorial Review:
John Rechy, recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote City of Night in 1963. This radical and daring work, which launched Rechy’s reputation as one of America’s most courageous novelists, remains the classic document of the garish neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and men on the make who inhabited the homosexual underground of the early sixties.
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Rating:  - On prostitution
This sad book is nothing else than a depressing wandering among the seedy world of mercenary sex. Boring and giving a misidentification of the gay world, as if it were identified with the world of prostitutes and their clients: that's SO not true.
Rating:  - LOOKING FOR LOVE
Rechy, John. "City of Night", Grove Press Reprint, 1994
Looking for Love
Amos Lassen and Literary Pride
John Rechy's "City of Night" is one of the classics of gay literature and I am amazed that reading it again now I find that it still mesmerizes as it did when I read it the first time in 1963 (I really am an old person it seems). When it was first published in '63 it was a national best seller and it caused uproar as well as ushered in a new age of gay literature. ... Read More
Rating: - A Night Without End
Someone once remarked that great artists remake the same works over and over, likening them to musicians who play variations on the same riff.
John Rechy would fall into this category of literary artist.
Take his first novel, for instance: CITY OF NIGHT. After one has read this novel and gone on to Rechy's other works, one sees the same themes and concerns sounded again and again in almost the same register - the note of erotic desperation played in high lyricism and despair. ... Read More
Rating: - A gay "classic" enhanced by an eerily prophetic ending set in New Orleans
It's easy to see why this book caused such a sensation when it was published in 1963. It's not because of the sexual descriptions, which are neither remotely erotic nor all that graphic--even for the early 1960s. Nor is it because of the Beat-genre prose and the in-your-face nihilism. Instead, "City of Night" brought to the light of day the darkest corners of the "gay underworld" (and, yes, Rechy uses the term "gay" here), and the book does it in a way that highlights the insecurities and the pretenses, the ... Read More
Rating: - 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 censorship hung over America's authors and publishers.
He describes this world with brusque frankness. ... Read More
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