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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction John Rechys first novel, City of Night , an international bestseller, is considered a modern classic. Subsequent work asserts his place among Americas most important writers. The authors 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 Pauls library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evenings 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 ambassadors daughter and the heiress to a vast fortune. Avoiding identifying his sons mother, he reveals an affinity for erotic dangerous games. With intimations of past decadence and menace, an abandoned island nearby arouses tense fascination over the group. As games veer toward violence, secrets surface in startling twists and turns. Explo

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Author

Rechy, John

Publisher

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802189332

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.62 / 5 (54 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14