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The coming of the night / a novel by John Rechy.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.E28 C66 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rechy, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Gay people--Social life and customs.
- Gay people--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Gay people.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 244 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- It is 1981, a hot summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Jesse, "the kid, " is celebrating one year on the dazzling gay scene and plans to lose himself completely in its transient pleasures. Clint has fled New York with a sense of unease in the wake of a vicious gay-bashing and a night in the sexual underground. Buzz, Boo, Toro, Fredo, and Linda are cruising the city looking for danger, and so is Dave, a "leatherman" devoted to S&M and testing limits. And a priest is searching the streets for a young hustler named Angel, determined to bring him to Jesus. As the Santa Ana winds, renowned for stirring up desires and violence, breathe fire down the hills of Los Angeles, this cast of characters circles ever closer to the night - and to a confrontation as astonishing as it is inevitable.
- ISBN:
- 0802116507
- OCLC:
- 40964881
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