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ISBN:	0802125891 (ISBN13: 9780802125897)
Literary Awards:	Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction (2018)

After the Blue Hour

John Rechy

Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.36 | 196 Users | 42 Reviews

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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 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. Explosive confrontation becomes inevitable.

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Title	:	After the Blue Hour
Author	:	John Rechy
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	February 7th 2017 by Grove Press (first published February 2017)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Gay. GLBT. Queer. Gay Fiction

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Ratings: 3.36 From 196 Users | 42 Reviews

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I read Rechy's 'City of Night' sort of by accident when I was sixteen (It was on the same library shelf as Anne Rice.) So, Rice's sadomasochistic fantasies, Anais Nin's erotica (not on the same shelf, but read around the same time) and this all got intertwined in my head. Rechy was by far the most shockingly eye-opening; the most gritty - but at the same time, his writing shares a certain overwrought drama with the other two. I never really followed his writing after that - tried to get a hold

Well....The book cover is gorgeous, isn't it? :) This is 'not' a novel for everyone....BE WARNED!!!There is a derogatory-sex scene....so intense --that my mind stopped cold. However, I feel that this book is for readers who can withhold judgements at a distance - can appreciate a book with conniving, competitive, untrustworthy, and unlikable characters. And...look further....at this psychologically taut novel about secrets we all carry. Look at breaking points in relationships and the complexity

One of the best books I've read in a long time. It contains suspense, mystery, love, intrigue, and so much about humans. But it's wild and crazy and a completely different world at the same time. Rechy is an amazing writer - which is not breaking news. But once again he hits it out of the park. I could not put this book down.



I read quite a few of Rechy's early semi-autobiographical works (his classic 'City of Night', 'Numbers', 'Rushes' and 'The Sexual Outlaw') back in the early 70's, and was somewhat surprised to learn he's not only still alive (he's almost 86, despite an incorrect birthdate on GR!), but still publishing controversial work. He bills this as a 'true fiction', and indeed, the narrator is a young 24 year old writer/hustler named .... John Rechy! Supposing, then, that this is based on an actual

Well written taught drama with a cast of unlikable characters, or at least characters that you would like to smack and say "what were you thinking?". The above mentioned scene was not as shocking as I was led to believe, but maybe I am just as or more so depraved as the characters in this book.

Part autobiography, part fiction, this well-written but ultimately inconsequential novel, tells the story of a young writer, called, like the author, John Rechy, who is invited to stay on a private island by one of his admirers. Paul is a slightly older man, and is on holiday with his beautiful mistress and teenage son. It soon becomes clear that Paul is a manipulative and perhaps dangerous man, who loves to indulge in power games, and the atmosphere on the island becomes sinister and toxic. All