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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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City of Night Information
267 words, approx. 1 pages
 City of Night is a novel written by John Rechy. Set in the 1960s, the book follows the travels of a young man (Rechy uses the term “youngman” when referring to hustlers) across the country while working as a hustler. The book focuses chapters on...




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 The Village Voice
City of night
08/27/2003: 708 words, approx. 2 pages FUN UNDER 21 Everyone knows that underage college students and fake IDs go together like beer and head. And unless you attend Oral Roberts University, there's a bar or liquor store near campus that'll turn a blind eye to the badly laminated card...
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 The Independent - London
Night and the city
12/12/1995: 1,582 words, approx. 5 pages At 10pm on 19 April 1989, a woman was raped and beaten in New York's Central Park. She was not the first or the last, but she is the one most people remember. The victim, a wealthy young white woman and accomplished athlete with...
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N.Y. Fashion Week lowdown: Short skirts
2/4/2007: 527 words, approx. 2 pages It looks like leg wear is here to stay, at least through fall. Textured tights are the first must-have item to emerge from New York Fashion Week _ you need them to wear with all the short, flirty skirts.On Sunday afternoon, DKNY and Tracy Reese...
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 AP News
NY Fashion Week lowdown: Short skirts
2/4/2007: 527 words, approx. 2 pages It looks like leg wear is here to stay, at least through fall. Textured tights are the first must-have item to emerge from New York Fashion Week _ you need them to wear with all the short, flirty skirts.On Sunday afternoon, DKNY and Tracy Reese...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by James R. Giles
6,224 words, approx. 21 pages
 In the following essay, Giles compares Rechy's City of Night with James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, arguing that Rechy's work has greater significance because it emphasizes homosexuality over ethnicity.
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Critical Essay by Warren Tallman
246 words, approx. 1 pages
 Rechy's City of Night follows in its way much the same path that Kerouac traced in On the Road, eastside, westside and all around the country. And part of his desire—wild reaching of the writer's organism—is to swing this huge cityscape wordwise with a series of variations on the theme of the male hustlers' experiences in the homerotic world through which his narrator wanders. The novel is sure to be read as a confessional exposé documenting the night side of homose...


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