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After the blue hour: a true fiction

✍ Scribed by John Rechy

Publisher
Grove Atlantic;Grove Press
Year
2016;2017
Tongue
en-US
Weight
135 KB
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.,First edition
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0802189334

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

John Rechy's first novel, City of Night , an international bestseller, is considered a modern classic. Subsequent work asserts his place among America's most important writers. The author's most daring work, After the Blue Hour is narrated by a twenty-four-year-old writer named John Rechy. Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, he accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late thirties, his beautiful mistress, and his precocious teenage son. Browsing Paul's library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evening's "blue hour," John feels surcease, until, with unabashed candor, Paul shares intimate details of his life. Through cunning seductive charm, he married and divorced an ambassador's daughter and the heiress to a vast fortune. Avoiding identifying his son's mother, he reveals an affinity for erotic "dangerous games." With...

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