Tag Archives: John Rechy

The Coming of the Night

“The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy’s sizzling literary response . . . is as exciting as it…

“One of the major books to be published since World War II.” —The Washington Post

“Rechy is very good at evoking the seamier side of the streets, and he is masterful in funny, graphic sex scenes.” —Publishers Weekly

“Rechy . . . continues to write with such elegance and lyricism . . . A mind so singularly attuned to the layers and…

“A small-town lad’s awakening, sexual and intellectual–which takes him to big-city demimondes and books that begged, in their day, to be banned. . ….