Rushes: A novel
by John Rechy
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394508610
- ISBN 13
- 9780394508610
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
* Rushes by John Rechy , nice copy dust jacket is clean bright crisp , with a minimal amount of edgware , book the edges of the book - have sunning , black boards wrapped with red cloth , silver titling interior pages are crisp , nice copy , just don't shelf your books near windows ...During a single evening - set in a "leather and Western" bar located near the decaying and deserted waterfront of a large American city. This is the sexual battlefield, the world of the trucks, the piers, the warehouses. And Rechy explores it with a compelling, dramatic story told in a style that is elegant, convincing, and unsparing. .. Into the bar arrives a range of characters: regular patrons in their ceaseless search for compatible love, occasional customer hoping for a quick sexual fix, the female & transvestite hookers - working -dark streets outside,a couple seeking a voyeuristic experience, young man venturing out for the first time.... distilled from this and these lives is a moving, painful, revealing experience......Rushes by John Rechy..The Grove Press/N.Y., distributed by Random House,Publication date January 1, 1979 - about 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 in. Pages 222 ISBN- ,9780394508610 /LCCN -79 - 2302 - subjects, gay bars, pickups, cruising, curious, meeting other people.........Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit.......Rushes 5776 HC CLASSIC FICTION WB3 CLASSIC FICTION
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- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5776
- Title
- Rushes
- Author
- John Rechy
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394508610
- ISBN 13
- 9780394508610
- Publisher
- Grove Press : distributed by Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- female & transvestite hookers - working -dark streets outside,a couple seeking a voyeuristic experience, young man venturing out for the first time.... distilled from this and these lives is a moving, painful, revealing experience......Rushes by John Rech
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction literary;
Terms of Sale
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Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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Los Angeles, California
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