Tired of having the people around him try to transform him into something he is not, Lyle Clemens leaves fundamentalist Texas to embark on an odyssey in search of his own true destiny that takes him to the gambling casinos of Las Vegas and the glitteringworld of Los Angeles.

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John Rechy is the recipient of two coveted literary honors: PEN-USA West's Lifetime Achievement Award (which he was the first novelist to receive) and the Publishing Triangle's William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of twelve novels, among them the Los Angeles Times best-seller The Coming of the Night, City of Night, Numbers, Rushes, The Sexual Outlaw (all from Grove Press), as well as The Miraculous Day of Amalia G�mez and Our Lady of Babylon. An NEA recipient, he is also the author of several plays, essays, and short stories. John Rechy lives in Los Angeles.

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