Research Catalog

Title

City of night / John Rechy.

Author

Rechy, John

Publication

• New York, NY : Grove Press, [2013]
• ©1963

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Lafreniere, Steve

Description

491 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

• When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international bestseller, and fifty years later, it has become a classic. Bold and inventive in style, Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge within the neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and the denizens of their world, as he moves from El Paso to Times Square, from Pershing Square to the French Quarter. Now including never-seen original marked galley pages and an interview with the author, Rechy's portrait of the edges of America has lost none of its power to move and exhilarate.
• "Bold and inventive in style, the author is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge within the neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and the denizens of their world, as he moves from El Paso to Times Square, from Pershing Square to the French Quarter." --

Subject

• Rechy, John > Interviews
• Rechy, John
• Gay men > Fiction
• Male prostitutes > Fiction
• City and town life > Fiction
• Homosexuels masculins > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Prostitués > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Vie urbaine > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• City and town life
• Gay men
• Male prostitutes

Genre/Form

• Novels.
• novels.
• interviews.
• Fiction.
• Interviews.
• Romans.
• Autobiographical fiction.
• Erotic fiction.
• Gay fiction.
• Authors' inscriptions (Provenance)
• Presentation copies (Provenance)
• Romans homosexuels.

Note

• "Including a new interview with the author"--Cover.

Contents

Letter to Grove Press from James Baldwin, 1963 -- Introduction to the 1984 edition of City of Night -- City of Night -- Afterword to the 50th anniversary edition of City of Night -- Portfolio of annotated galley pages from the original 1963 edition of City of Night -- "John Rechy": VICE magazine interview / by Steve Lafreniere.

ISBN

• 9780802121530
• 0802121535
• 9780802192776 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• ocn861794091
• 861794091
• SCSB-2403118

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries