The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

“A funny, sexy, far-fetched coming-of-age story” from the award-winning, New York Times –bestselling author of City of Night ( The Washington Post ).   John Rechy—described by Gore Vidal as “one of the few original writers of the last century”—delivers a riotous bildungsroman that pays homage to the classic eighteenth-century picaresque.   Loosely inspired by Fielding’s Tom Jones , The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens follows the journey of handsome Lyle Clemens as he travels throug