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After the Blue Hour
After the Blue Hour
After the Blue Hour
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After the Blue Hour

Written by John Rechy

Narrated by Cooper North

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

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Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, John accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late thirties, his beautiful mistress, and his precocious teenage son. Browsing Paul's library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evening's "blue hour," John feels surcease, until, with unabashed candor, Paul shares intimate details of his life. Through cunning seductive charm, he married and divorced an ambassador's daughter and the heiress to a vast fortune. Avoiding identifying his son's mother, he reveals an affinity for erotic "dangerous games." With intimations of past decadence and menace, an abandoned island nearby arouses tense fascination over the group. As "games" veer toward violence, secrets surface in startling twists and turns. Explosive confrontation becomes inevitable.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 7, 2017
ISBN9781681684741
Author

John Rechy

John Rechy is the author of seventeen books, including City of Night, Numbers, Rushes and The Coming of the Night. He has received many awards, including PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime-Recognition Award from the University of California at Riverside. He lives in Los Angeles.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Disappointing. It starts like a intriguing mind game but at one point it starts to get boring. The resolution sounds very artificial and lousy. I didn't buy it at all.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I did not enjoy reading this book, so I stopped at 21% through it. It's difficult to say anything good about it.