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City Of Night

(1963)
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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.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys." - James Baldwin

"One of the few original American writers of the last century." - Gore Vidal


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