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The life and adventures of Lyle Clemens : a novel
- Title
- The life and adventures of Lyle Clemens : a novel / by John Rechy.
- Author
- Rechy, John
- Publication
- New York : Grove Press, c2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3568.E28 L54 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 324 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Loosely inspired by Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones but set in the present, The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens follows the journey of the charming, handsome Lyle Clemens, the son of a Miss America aspirant and an unknown father, as he travels through the religious fundamentalist world of Texas to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas and the enticing traps of Los Angeles's mythologies." "As Lyle approaches adulthood, everyone wants him to be something he's not. His beautiful mother wants to make him into a reflection of the cowboy who abandoned her; a group of avaricious fundamentalists, somehow related to a mysterious "curse" in his mother's past, plot to convert him into "the Lord's Cowboy" to rouse their televangelical empire to new frenzied heights; the lovely Maria wants him to fulfill her varying fantasies of "true love." When Lyle leaves home to make his own destiny, he encounters a gallery of charlatans and wistful souls, quirky gamblers, fake magicians, dreamy showgirls, and wily pornographers. He is seduced into an aging starlet's mad comeback scheme during a rambunctious Academy Awards ceremony. Through it all, Lyle struggles to become himself."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- ISBN
- 0802117465
- LCCN
- 2003049070
- OCLC
- ocm52127329
- SCSB-4835091
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries