Praise for After the Blue Hour:

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction

"Rechy's art has always been about power in various incarnations: the power of class and race, of the body and the intellectual . . . He continues to write with such elegance and lyricism, descending into raw scenes of human longing and violence . . . His language remains lapidary and hypnotic, never fading in its own control."--Susan Straight, Los Angeles Times

"John Rechy is as bold as ever. When Gore Vidal said that Rechy was 'one of the few original American writers of the last century, ' he was right. There's no other writer like him, and with the publication of After the Blue Hour, he shows no signs of letting up."--Ken Harvey, Lambda Literary

"A taut meditation on what it means to represent and to write, to read and to be read. After the Blue Hour is a beach read for those who prefer to thumb Genet rather than Grisham on the deckside chaise."--Eric Newman, Los Angeles Review of Books

"Shocking, erotic, and suspenseful . . . His fiction is as provocative and electric as ever. Rechy has explored the intersection of identity, sexual yearning, and morality throughout his career, but never with the clarity he exhibits in After the Blue Hour."--Jonathan Parks-Ramage, OUT Magazine

"Rechy's gift for storytelling and erotic embellishment shows no signs of wear-and-tear . . . Mysterious, intriguing, and brashly amatory, Rechy's take on gamesmanship, power, domination, and deception is a welcome return to form for the author and a wild ride indeed." --Jim Piechota, The Bay Area Reporter

"Tense metafiction, pungent with desire and emotional cruelty . . . Rechy's prose is lean and sinewy . . . The novel is unflinching in its candor even as its events have a tantalizing aura of mystery."--Publishers Weekly

"A steamy tale . . . with a kind of Gatsby-by-way-of-Henry James subplot. Beautifully written."--Kirkus Reviews