Books by John Rechy and Complete Book Reviews

John Rechy, Author . Grove $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1746-5
This ambitious and very funny novel tells the coming-of-age story of Lyle Clemens, "the child who would grow up to become the Mystery Cowboy who appeared naked along Hollywood Boulevard." It's a tall tale, a simultaneously sweet and...
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John Rechy, Author , foreword by Donald Weise. Carroll & Graf $14.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1405-6
A boost in Rechy's literary visibility following the 2002 biography Outlaw makes the time ripe for this career-spanning collection of essays. Broken into four sections, the anthology organizes its pieces generally by decade (though the first...
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John Rechy, Author . Grove $24 (356p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1861-5
Reflecting on his long life with a calm, clear eye, novelist Rechy (The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens) probes his nascent self-identity as a Mexican-American and a homosexual. Growing up during the Depression in El Paso, Tex., the youngest son
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John Rechy, Author Arcade Publishing $23.45 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55970-335-2
With a colorful ribbon of feminist revisionism festooning its New Age wrapping, Rechy's latest novel indulges in past-life grandiosity and some scandalous speculation about the erotic lives of Adam, Medea and Jesus, among others. An unnamed countess
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John Rechy, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $19.95 (531p) ISBN 978-0-88184-272-2
Rechy ( City of Night ) amateurishly explores a tantalizing situation in this wordy and occasionally lurid novel: Is it possible that Marilyn Monroe gave birth to an illegitimate daughter by Robert Kennedy shortly before she died in 1962? Following...
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John Rechy, Author Arcade Publishing $19.95 (206p) ISBN 978-1-55970-115-0
Sexually abused by her drunken father, twice-divorced Amalia Gomez lives with her two rebellious teenage chidren, Juan and Gloria, in the decaying, gang-ridden outskirts of Hollywood. Rechy ( Marilyn's Daughter ), himself Mexican American, probes...
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John Rechy, Author Grove Press $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1650-5
In a return to some of the themes of his first novel, the gay classic City of Night (1963), Rechy follows an ensemble cast of mainly gay characters over the course of one day in 1981 Los Angeles, just before the AIDS crisis hits. As the Santa Ana...
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John Rechy. Grove, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2589-7
Rechy’s (City of Night) latest is tense metafiction, pungent with desire and emotional cruelty. Its narrator—a writer named John Rechy—accepts an invitation from Paul Wagner, a fan of his transgressive fiction, to leave Los Angeles in 1960 for a...
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