After the Blue Hour
After the Blue Hour
Author: John Rechy
Desc: John Rechy’s first novel City of Night an international bestseller is considered a modern classic. Subsequent work asserts his place among America’s most important writers. The author’s most daring work After the Blue Hour is narrated by a twenty-four-year-old writer named John Rechy. Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles he 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.