After the Blue Hour
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. Read After the Blue Hour by John Rechy – kino-fada.fr 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 Andlook further.at this psychologically taut novel about secrets we all carry Look at breaking points in relationships and the complexity 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 Andlook further.at this psychologically taut novel about secrets we all carry Look at breaking points in relationships and the complexity of inner lives of others This is a searing suspenseful story of intimacy and emotional chaos In After the Blue Hour , John Rechy, author, age 24 in 1960, receives an invitation from a fan named Paul Wagner, to join him for the summer on this private island John spe...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 o 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...I honestly can t justify rating this book any higher than a three I didn t see the mind games, just selfish, narcissist people, who took advantage of others, period It wasn t even for pleasure, it was evil and boring The Book is billed as true fiction So does that mean it s based on a foggy memory, or an embellished truth It could have happened However, I wish I didn t read about it.John Rechy author, and main character at age 24 in 1960.Paul the man with the island, wormed his wa I honestly can t justify rating this book any higher than a three I didn t see the mind games, just selfish, narcissist people, who took advantage of others, period It wasn t even for pleasure, it was evil and boring The Book is billed as true fiction So does that mean it s based on a foggy memory, or an embellished truth It could have happened However, I wish I didn t read about...Update 06 05 2018 I m a bit sad, because I found this year were really great books in the category and this one I liked less of all I know I should congratulate the author and be quiet, but it is difficult The worst book has won IMO 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist Gay Fiction Gay Fiction After the Blue Hour Grove PressThe Clothesline Swing, Nightwood EditionsThe End of Eddy, Straus and GirouxFimi Sile Forever Heaven Gave It to Me, Team AngelicaThe Heart s Invisible Furies, Update 06 05 2018 I m a bit sad, because I found this year were really great books in the category and this one I liked less of all I know I should congratulate the author and be quiet, but it is difficult The worst book has won IMO 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist Gay Fiction Gay Fiction After the Blue Hour Grove PressThe Clothesline Swing, Nightwood EditionsThe End of Eddy, Straus and GirouxFimi Sile Forever Heaven Gave It to Me, Team AngelicaThe Heart s Invisible Furies, HogarthLess, Lee Boudreaux BooksOutside Is the Ocean, University of Iowa PressThis Is How It Begins, She Writes Press Obviously it is enough to wander to and fro between a sundeck and a bar, with a little suspense and intrigue in a background, share hateful memories about your ex women , swing by to a house library and mention some intellectual books to be considered as a m...This may be Rechy s best book, an exciting, suspenseful novel that boldly explores mounting tensions among four fascinating characters trapped in a web of secrets and buried conflicts Paul is the wealthy owner of the luxurious private island on which the action is set Deadly charm has allowed him to marry and divorce two notable women, threatening presences who may or may not appear The others on the island now are the narrator with a tawdry past significantly named John Rechy Paul s be This may be Rechy s best book, an exciting, suspenseful novel that boldly explores mounting tensions among four fascinating characters trapped in a web of secrets and buried conflicts Paul is the wealthy owner of the luxurious private island on which the action is set Deadly charm has allowed him to marry and divorce two notable women, threatening presences who may or may not appear The others on the island now are the narrator with a tawdry past significantly named John Rechy Paul s beautiful and enigmatic mistress, and his precocious, perhaps dangerous teenage son Mysteriously threatening, and developed skillfully by Rechy, are the unseasonal summer heat under a frozen sun and an abandone...A book about the revelations of truths Where things may or may not be what they appear until the explosive climax The book takes its name from The Blue Hour, those moments of twilight that are described as the time where things are clearest yet most mysterious 24 year old John Rechy is invited by a fan, Paul Wagner, to spend time on his private island with him after reading two of Rechy s stories, Mardi Gra...This is the first time I have read anything by John Rechy, who is probably best know for his book City of Night Interesting that this book, a pseudo memoir as City of Night may have been, deals with a character John Rechy, who was is a hustler I really like the feel of this book It reminded me of Patricia Highsmith or Paul Auster or even a David Lynch movie It is very sexually...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 inciden 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 surpris...Fascinating authorial perspective Set in the time just before the author protagonist s first and career launching book City of Night was published, and layered with autobiographical fragments both psychologically intriguing, this true fiction is informed by a lifetime of reading and writing and observing human nature The structure is tight the language perhaps arcane to contemporary readers and the sexual ...In After The Blue Hour John Rechy has given us yet another masterpiece of sexual exploration No one has ever journeyed so deeply and so nakedly into the inferno of desire in all its brutal insatiability, and conveyed that world to the reader in such lucid, silken prose What begins as an almost genteel memoir of the newly published narrator s visit to an admirer a handsome fortune hunter, living with his latest mistress and an adolescent son on a private island inevitably explodes into a some In After The Blue Hour John Rechy has given us yet another masterpiece of sexual exploration No one has ever journeyed so deeply and so nakedly into the inferno of desire in all its brutal insatiability, and conveyed that world to the reader in such lucid, silken prose What begins a...
- 21 May 2017 John Rechy
- Hardcover
- 224 pages
- 0802125891
- John Rechy
- After the Blue Hour