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Lyrical, humorous, and compassionate, The Coming of the Night proves again that as a novelist and chronicler of gay life John Rechy has no equal. The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy's sizzling literary response, The Coming of Night is as exciting as it is chilling. -- Pamela Warrick, Los Angeles Times;  Rechy] very nearly touches greatness . . . feeling his way toward that place within each of us where the ecstatic teeters on the edge of psychic abyss. . . . A substantial artist. -- Frank Browning, Salon.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49660766912785,"sku":"GOR004126217","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50272818954513,"sku":"CIN0802137423VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50365252206865,"sku":"CIN0802137423G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007238209809,"sku":"NIN9780802137425","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53584605282577,"sku":"GOR014970745","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0802137423.jpg?v=1750946154"},{"product_id":"bodies-and-souls-book-john-rechy-9780802138460","title":"Bodies and Souls","description":"In Bodies and Souls, Rechy paints a portrait of modern Los Angeles, \"the most spiritual and physical of cities,\" where we meet characters like Amber, a porn superstar; Manny Gomez, a Chicano caught up in the punk-rock scene; and Dave Clinton, an aging male stripper. 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It is the compelling, ferociously relevant story of four teenagers playing deadly games with drugs, sex, and one another. Behind a facade of tough cynicism, on a raging search for kicks, they explore the hot, dusty city, bent on trouble. There are three “angels”—Shell, Cob, and Manny, and their recruit Jerry, who becomes the fourth.    Hovering in that uncertain limbo between childhood and adulthood, the four angels maintain a precarious balance among themselves and with the outside world. Each one is today’s street kid: still tinged with innocence and capable of beauty, but at the same time full of rage and violence, attempting to conceal an ugly past.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362644791569,"sku":"CIN0802151973G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007375376657,"sku":"NIN9780802151971","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0802151973.jpg?v=1751076093"},{"product_id":"citta-di-notte-book-john-rechy-9788855800471","title":"Città di notte","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50957176602897,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50957176766737,"sku":"GOR014145519","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8855800477.jpg?v=1751032993"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-rechy-john.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}