Authors: John Rechy, Rechy
ISBN-13: 9780802151988, ISBN-10: 0802151981
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Date Published: January 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Book jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the "numbers," the men who will confirm his desirability, and with the hungry focus of a man on borrowed time, he stalks the dark balconies of all-night theaters, the hot sands of gay beaches, and shady glens of city parks, attempting to attract shadowy sex-hunters in an obcessive battle against the passing of his youth.