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  title info:
    title: About my life and the kept woman
    sub title: a memoir
  name:
    name part: Rechy, John
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographie.
  genre: Autobiographies.
  genre: Biography.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2008
    copyright date: 2008
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 356 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
  abstract: "Rechy was raised Mexican American in El Paso, Texas, at a time when Latino children were routinely separated from their Anglo classmates for daily lice checks and English pronunciation lessons, and being proud of who you were was unheard of. Because of his light skin, he was often assumed to be Anglo, and his name was "changed" by a teacher, from Juan to John. As he grew older - and as his fascination deepened with the memory of a notorious kept woman in his childhood - Rechy became "a ghost boy" who preferred to be alone, feeling different in his heritage and, eventually, in his sexuality. While he performed the roles others wanted for him, he never allowed anyone to define him - whether the authoritarians in the U.S. Army, the bigoted relatives of his Anglo college classmates, or the men and women who wanted him to be something he was not." "In these pages, Rechy opens up about the reality behind the events in his famous autobiographical novel, City of Night, and introduces a new vibrant cast of characters: his loving Mexican mother and violent Scottish father; Alicia, an enigmatic young woman whose life intertwines with his from El Paso to San Francisco; and a roster of such luminaries as Allen Ginsberg and Christopher Isherwood." "Navigating the Depression, the Second World War, the Watts Riots, and the Vietnam War protests, About My Life and the Kept Woman is a story of a life that bears witness to some of the most turbulent changes of the past century. It is an indictment of intolerance and a portrait of an individual who defied it to forge his own path."--Jacket.
  note: John Rechy.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is isgned by the author.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rechy, John
  subject:
    topic: Mexican American authors
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Gay authors
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rechy, John
  subject:
    topic: Gay authors
  subject:
    topic: Mexican American authors
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rechy, John
      name part: 1934-
  subject:
    topic: Gay novelists
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rechy, John
  classification: PS3568.E28 Z46 2008
  classification: 813/.54 B
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    title info:
      title: About my life and the kept woman
    name:
      name part: Rechy, John.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Grove Press, ©2008
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)608456771
  identifier: 9780802118615
  identifier: 0802118615
  identifier: 2010278185
  identifier: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2010278185-d.html
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    location:
      url: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2010278185-d.html
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 070728
    record change date: 20190301152343.0
    record identifier: in00002362639
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng