![]() ![]() And a priest is searching the streets for a young hustler named Angel, determined to bring him to Jesus. Buzz, Boo, Toro, Fredo, and Linda are cruising the city looking for danger, and so is Dave, a “leatherman” devoted to S&M and testing limits. Clint has fled New York with a sense of unease in the wake of a vicious gay-bashing and a night in the sexual underground. Jesse, “the kid,” is celebrating one year on the dazzling gay scene and plans to lose himself completely in its transient pleasures. It is 1981, a hot summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. A stunning evocation of gay desire in the moment just before AIDS, this book confirms the author’s position as America’s preeminent gay writer. In The Coming of the Night, Rechy returns to some of the themes and scenes of his now-classic first novel. When it was first published, John Rechy’s City of Night created a sensation and became an international bestseller. ![]()
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