![]() ![]() ![]() Woman (‘Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light/ Or just another lost angel.City of Night City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woo, c'mon’). ![]() The novel was certainly in the forefront of Jim Morrison’s mind when he came to write the lyrics of L.A. Rechy might not have been on publishers’ radar, but ‘City of Night’ has seeped into popular culture. New readers to Rechy may already be familiar with ‘City of Night’. Over twenty years have passed since ‘City of Night’ was last published in the UK. The landmark first novel about male prostitution by John Rechy has remained continuously in print in America for almost half a century, but the gay Mexican-American author has been largely neglected by British publishers. ‘City of Night’, an instant bestseller when it was first published in 1963, has just been brought back into print by the independent publisher Souvenir Press. ![]()
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![]() “Theyĭo this in extraordinary ways such as sending their People, subject to a prophecy long ago that they wouldīring great healing and freedom to the nations. The Well Spring Trilogy centers on four ordinary We have to get through to gain that freedom. To write a story about freedom without depicting the warfare “I discovered,” explains Jim, “it’s impossible There can be in Jesus, without any intention that it be a novelĪbout spiritual warfare. Nelson), was to pen a story that reflected how much freedom Rubart’s goal for his latest novel, Soul’s Gate (Thomas This article originally appeared in the April/May 2013 issue of FamilyFiction Edge digital magazine. Readers to think beyond the physical world. Realm-here are five authors who challenge Honoring the Bible’s focus on the spiritual Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness. ![]() Of Christian fiction with his tales of angels, In the 1980s, Frank Peretti changed the face ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol." (Summary by Martin Geeson)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats or languages (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The 'boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her' story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. ![]() LibriVox recording of First Love, by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett. LibriVox recording of First Love, by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett. ![]() |