Understanding John Rechy:

"John Rechy--El Paso, Texas-born novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and literary critic of Mexican and Scottish descent--published his debut novel City of Night in 1963. This controversial first novel 'remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 25 weeks,' was translated...

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1. Verfasser: DeGuzmán, María (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbia, South Carolina The University of South Carolina Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Understanding contemporary American literature
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Zusammenfassung:"John Rechy--El Paso, Texas-born novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and literary critic of Mexican and Scottish descent--published his debut novel City of Night in 1963. This controversial first novel 'remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 25 weeks,' was translated into more than a dozen languages, become an international bestseller, and is widely recognized as 'a great American novel' and a modern classic. Rechy has gone on to publish fourteen more novels (one of them classified as a 'documentary' and not always recognized as a novel), one memoir, and a collection of forty-five essays as well as write at least three plays, one feeding into a novel and two of them based on already existing novels. He is still writing from his home in Los Angeles"--
Beschreibung:xiv, 152 Seiten
ISBN:9781643360065