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The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens
The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens | John Rechy
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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. Reprint.
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“Fiction rejects coincidences, but life abounds in them,“ Rechy writes. In this absorbing picaresque, twists and turns, both comic and tragic, abound: from Lyle's childhood as a bastard in Texas to being swept up and exploited by nefarious fundamentalists, and ultimately landing in the glitter and grime of Hollywood. The propulsion of coincidences kept me turning the pages of this novel, hungry to know what would happen next. A pleasure!