Rushes - John Rechy

Author: John Rechy

Publisher: Grove Press

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Edition: First edition, first printing, 1979

ISBN: 9780394508610

Condition: Second-hand. Very good book in a fair to good dust jacket. The dust jacket has substantial edge wear, creasing, several closed tears and small chips or losses at the corners and spine ends. There is a longer tear along the upper front edge and additional wear at the lower front corner. The jacket remains complete and presents well despite the damage. The hardcover and pages appear clean and securely bound, with no obvious inscriptions or library markings visible in the supplied photos. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Set over the course of a single evening in a leather and Western bar near a decaying urban waterfront, Rushes follows a shifting group of men through desire, ritual, loneliness, performance and violence. The bar becomes an enclosed world of piers, trucks, warehouses and coded encounters, rendered in Rechy’s intense and unsparing prose.