Movie theaters in the angry morning-hours. Remember Pershing Square and the apathetic palm trees. Later I would think of America as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard-jukebox-winking, rock-n-roll-moaning: America at night fusing its dark cities into the unmistakable shape of loneliness. “Probably no first novel is so complete, so well held together, and so important as City of Night.” - The Houston Post
“Both shocking and suffuse with longing, a combo that can make an adolescent boy circa 1966 lose his mind.” -Richard Price, from his “My Five Most Essential Books” published in Newsweek (April 13, 2009) This is a most humbling and liberating achievement.” -James Baldwin tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. “Rechy’s tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own, and he has the kind of discipline which allows him a rare and beautiful recklessness. The book therefore has the unmistakable ring of candor and truth.” - The New York Times Book Review Rechy writes in an authentic jive-like slang: the nightmare existence is explored with a clarity not often clouded by sentimentality and self-pity. “One of the major books to be published since World War II.” - The Washington Post
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