Rushes

Rushes takes place in a leather and western bar beside a run-down waterfront. The story unfolds across one night, as a wide cast of men drifts in and out of the place. Together they form a brief, shifting community held together only by the room itself. The novel follows them into a sexual underworld, building toward an episode that the book's blurb describes as among the most disturbing in recent fiction. Author John Rechy, known for his earlier novel City of Night, focuses on gay life in this setting and on the people who pass through it.