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City of Night
by John Rechy
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tight, square spine has some cosmetic creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. Some very minor shelf-wear and toning to the pages. 'Outside, the rain is coming furiously,' Rechy writes in this classic hustling chronicle that a contemporary New York Times review said ''show[s] the grubby, lonely, nearly psychotic underside of such a life.' The unnamed narrator 'stand[s] under the marquee wondering where to go. . . . reacting instinctively to this world, studying the stances of other obviously drifting youngmen.' The book, which would go on to inspire My Own Private Idaho, gets a Ballantine mass-market treatment here with a cover that's a colorized, only slightly more sexy riff on the Grove Press first edition. Texas-born Rechy, who was influenced by sources ranging from comic books to Dostoevsky to Margaret Mitchell, retired from cruising at the ripe age of 60 and now lives in domestic bliss with raunchy-comedy producer Michael Ewing, watched over in their Encino home by outsize lithographs of Joan Crawford and Marlene Dietrich. 380 pp.
Synopsis
City of Night is a novel written by John Rechy. It was originally published in 1963 in New York by Grove Press. Earlier excerpts had appeared in Evergreen Review, Big Table, Nugget, and The London Magazine. City of Night is notable for its exposé approach to and stark depiction of hustling, as well as its stream of consciousness narrative style.
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Details
- Seller
- Goodbar Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 931115
- Title
- City of Night
- Author
- John Rechy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ballantine Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Goodbar Books
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Cottage Grove, Oregon
About Goodbar Books
New, used, and collectible books in historic downtown Cottage Grove, Oregon.
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