There's no other writer like him, and with the publication of After the Blue Hour, he shows no signs of letting up.'-Ken Harvey, Lambda Literary 'A taut meditation on what it means to represent and to write, to read and to be read. When Gore Vidal said that Rechy was 'one of the few original American writers of the last century,' he was right. His language remains lapidary and hypnotic, never fading in its own control.'-Susan Straight, Los Angeles Times 'John Rechy is as bold as ever. He continues to write with such elegance and lyricism, descending into raw scenes of human longing and violence. Praise for After the Blue Hour : Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction 'Rechy's art has always been about power in various incarnations: the power of class and race, of the body and the intellectual. Explosive confrontation becomes inevitable. As 'games' veer toward violence, secrets surface in startling twists and turns. Avoiding identifying his son's mother, he reveals an affinity for erotic 'dangerous games.' With intimations of past decadence and menace, an abandoned island nearby arouses tense fascination over the group. Through cunning seductive charm, he married and divorced an ambassador's daughter and the heiress to a vast fortune. Browsing Paul's library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evening's 'blue hour,' John feels surcease, until, with unabashed candor, Paul shares intimate details of his life. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late thirties, his beautiful mistress, and his precocious teenage son. Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, he accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work.

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

City of night rechy