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9780802121530 | 50 anv edition (Grove Pr, November 12, 2013), cover price $16.00
9780802130839 | Reissue edition (Grove Pr, February 1, 1988), cover price $15.00
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9780802118615 | Grove Pr, January 21, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In a candid memoir, the literary luminary and author of City of Night describes growing up Mexican-American in the racially divided city of El Paso, Texas, reflecting on his fascination with a notorious kept woman, his ethnic heritage, and his growing understanding of his sexual differences.
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9780802144041 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, March 3, 2009), cover price $14.00
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9788488052247 | Italian edition edition (Egales Editorial, November 30, 2006), cover price $23.95
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9780802141668 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, December 1, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Tired of having the people around him try to transform him into something he is not, Lyle Clemens leaves fundamentalist Texas to embark on a picaresque odyssey in search of his own true destiny that takes him to the gambling casinos of Las Vegas and the glittering world of Los Angeles, encountering charlatans, lost souls, gamblers, pornographers, showgirls, and other colorful characters along the way.
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9780786714056 | Da Capo Pr, January 4, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Four decades of previously uncollected essays are assembled here, representing the author's perspectives on sexual liberation, Anita Bryant, the early stages of the AIDS epidemic, sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and the repeal of sodomy laws.
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9782914853026 | French Connection Pr, January 30, 2004, cover price $16.95
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9780802117465 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2003), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: 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.
Hardcover:
9780967412726 | Cdr edition (Univ of Southern California, January 1, 2003), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Challenging the borders between autobiography, memory, history and fiction, this interactive memoir presents a diverse array of personal materials by and about John Rechy and sets them against larger collective histories of Chicano culture and the gay world.
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9780802138460 | Grove Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In Bodies and Souls, Rechy paints a portrait of modern Los Angeles, "the most spiritual and physical of cities," where we meet characters like Amber, a porn superstar; Manny Gomez, a Chicano caught up in the punk-rock scene; and Dave Clinton, an aging male stripper.
Hardcover:
9781559701150 | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, September 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With the memory of her oldest child--a victim of a gang-related shooting--still fresh in her mind, Amalia Gomez reflects upon her experience in Los Angeles as a Mexican-American woman during a long day that ends with her attempted murder
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9780802138477 | Grove Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $14.00
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9780802116505 | Grove Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In 1981, in the days just before the beginning of the AIDS era, a cast of characters circulating through the gay scene in Los Angeles moves toward an inevitable confrontation
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9780802137425 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In 1981, in the days just before the beginning of the AIDS era, a cast of characters circulating through the gay scene in Los Angeles moves toward an inevitable confrontation.
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9780802134974 | Grove Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $12.00
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9781559703352 | Arcade Pub, May 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An eighteenth-century lady haunted by dreams of infamous fallen women and their lovers realizes that these women's lives bear a remarkable resemblance to her own, and is told by a mystic that her dreams are memories of past lives and that she must face the public to vindicate all women falsely accused of crimes
Product Description: A moving, harsh, and tender novel about one day in the life of a Mexican-American, by the bestselling author of City of Night and Marilyn's Daughter.
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9780517128831 | Random House Value Pub, September 1, 1994, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: A moving, harsh, and tender novel about one day in the life of a Mexican-American, by the bestselling author of City of Night and Marilyn's Daughter.
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9781559702034, titled "The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez" | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, February 1, 1993), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: With the memory of her oldest child--a victim of a gang-related shooting--still fresh in her mind, Amalia Gomez reflects upon her experience in Los Angeles as a Mexican-American woman during a long day that ends with her attempted murder
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9780802131638 | Revised edition (Grove Pr, January 1, 1990), cover price $15.95
A young woman journeys from Texas to California in search of her true identity and, as she moves deeper into a maze of uncharted Hollywood history, discovers that she could be the daughter of Marilyn Monroe
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9780881845310 | Carroll & Graf Pub, October 1, 1989, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A young woman journeys from Texas to California in search of her true identity and, as she moves deeper into a maze of uncharted Hollywood history, discovers that she could be the daughter of Marilyn Monroe
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9780881842722 | Carroll & Graf Pub, July 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A young woman journeys from Texas to California in search of her true identity and, as she moves deeper into a maze of uncharted Hollywood history, discovers that she could be the daughter of Marilyn Monroe
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9780881841022 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, November 1, 1984), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a pornographic actress, a teenage Chicano, a male stripper, a bodybuilder, a woman on Skid Row, two teenage hustlers and other denizens of Los Angeles
9780881840049 | Carroll & Graf Pub, June 1, 1983, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a pornographic actress, a teenage Chicano, a male stripper, a bodybuilder, a woman on Skid Row, two teenage hustlers and other denizens of Los Angeles
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9780802151988 | Grove Pr, August 1, 1984, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Records the adventures of a male hustler as he stalks the hideouts of homosexuals in Los Angeles
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9780865790278 | Seaver Books, October 1, 1983, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Four Texas teenagers spend their idle summer hours playing dangerous games and terrorizing the public
9780394624693 | Grove Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Four Texas teenagers spend their idle summer hours playing dangerous games and terrorizing the public
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9780802151971 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1983, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This is the compelling, ferociously relevant story of four teenagers playing deadly games with drugs, sex, and one another.
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9780394178837 | Grove Pr, May 1, 1981, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The action takes place in a bar near the deserted waterfront of a large American city, where the regular patrons look for compatible love, the occasional customer hopes for a quick sexual fix, and the female and transvestite hookers ply their trade
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9780440176671 | Dell Pub Co, January 1, 1978, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: paperback
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