City of Night

"This the the worst confection yet devised by the masterminds behind the Grove epater-la-post-office Machine. So fabricated is it that, despite the adorable photograph on the rear of the dust jacket, I can hardly believe there is a real John Rechy--and if there is, he would probably be the first to agree that there isn't--for City of Night reads like the unTrue Confessions of a Male Whore as told to Jean Genet, Djuna Barnes, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Thomas Wolfe, Fanny Hurst and Dr. Franzblau. It is pastiche from the word go."Rechy, John is the author of 'City of Night', published 1994 under ISBN 9780802130839 and ISBN 0802130836.