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City of Night | 
 enlarge | Author: John Rechy
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 50207
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reissue
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0802130836
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802130839
ASIN: 0802130836
Publication Date: August 25, 2000
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1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Written in the early 1960s, this book reads like it could have been written a lot more recently. There's a modernism to the style that keeps it young. The attention to detail and character are strong and riveting. Locations and scenes come to life. It's alive.
 bitter sweet moments amidst cold endless ejaculations June 25, 2000
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
I picked up a dusty old book amongst many others, not expecting much and certainly not with the childish greed brought on by the glossiness of new books and their promise of knowledge and poetry (which then , mostly, fades into a redundant echo of other echoes). What I did expect was an exhausted expose of the degeneracy of urbanism, the tireless decadence of city life hand in hand with the ever-so-popular angst brought on by the opium fumes of existentialist discourse. What I did not expect was this almost overbearing burden of humanness which is only possible with children and those poignant post-Freudian/ Mann-like characters lost in the events, memories and guilt of the past. Rechy obviously loves his characters, he is Sylvia. protectively surveying his 'children'; one gets the feeling that while describing each of his characters with a guilt-ridden abandon of a person attempting to understand whilst not getting involved, he is in fact clothing their naked vulnerability with a veil of dignity ...Kathy, Chi-Chi, Miss Destiny, the queens, the male hustlers, the homosexuals, the sad and the lonely, the marginalised and the fetishised ... Rechy takes us in the darkest hours of the night through the lonesome alleys of cruising grounds and bars to rediscover what has already been established with Neitzche .. that we are all 'Human, all too Human.'
Enduring classic novel. August 17, 1998
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have just re-read this novel--I read it as required reading more than ten years ago at Yale. The book has not aged one bit. If anything, it becomes richer, and the characters I remembered came back to life even more vividly, especially Pete the Times Square hustler, and Miss Destiny, the L.A. dragqueen, and Sylvia, the New Orleans gay bar owner always searching for her banished son. So many others spring alive in this moving novel about America at night.
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