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Save:A groundbreaking, polarizing classic - dark, evocative, and deeply human. City of Night is essential queer literature, but its raw style and bleak honesty won’t be for everyone.
'City of Night' by John Rechy is a novel that delves into the gay male life in the 1950s, following an unnamed narrator through various cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and New Orleans. The book portrays the struggles and experiences of the narrator as he navigates the hustling scenes and encounters a diverse array of characters, from hustlers and drag queens to vice cops and barkeepers. The writing style is described as vivid, compassionate, and unapologetic, offering a raw portrayal of the queer community during that era.
LATER I WOULD THINK OF AMERICA as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard—jukebox-winking, rock-n-roll-moaning: America at night fusing its darkcities into t...January 1963•424 pages
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