9781555847289_

A funny, sexy, far-fetched coming-of-age story from the award-winning, New York Timesbestselling author of City of Night (The Washington Post).

John Rechydescribed by Gore Vidal as one of the few original writers of the last centurydelivers a riotous bildungsroman that pays homage to the classic eighteenth-century picaresque.

Loosely inspired by Fieldings Tom Jones, The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens follows the journey of handsome Lyle Clemens as he travels through the religious fundamentalist world of Texas to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas and the enticing traps of Los Angeless mythologies.

As Lyle approaches adulthood, everyone wants him to be something hes not. His beautiful mother wants to make him into a reflection of the cowboy who abandoned her; a group of avaricious fundamentalists plot to convert him into the Lords Cowboy to rouse their televangelical empire to new frenzied heights; and the lovely Maria wants him to fulfill her varying fantasies of true love. When Lyle leaves home to make his own destiny, he encounters a gallery of charlatans and wistful souls, quirky gamblers, aging starlets, and wily pornographers.

The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens is a potent compound of both sex and rapture . . . sly, smart, sexy and laugh-out-loud funny, but it is also tinged with sorrow and ultimately elevated into the realm of magic (The Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Ambitious and very funny . . . a tall tale, a simultaneously sweet and vicious satire of contemporary America . . . a comic tour de force and, at the same time, a truly heartfelt book. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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"A funny, sexy, far-fetched coming-of-age story" from the award-winning, New York Timesbestselling author of City of Night ( The Washington Post).

John Rechydescribed 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.

As Lyle approaches adulthood, everyone wants him to be something hes not. His beautiful mother wants to make him into a reflection of the cowboy who abandoned her; a group of avaricious fundamentalists plot to convert him into "the Lords Cowboy" to rouse their televangelical empire to new frenzied heights; and the lovely Maria wants him to fulfill her varying fantasies of "true love." When Lyle leaves home to make his own destiny, he encounters a gallery of charlatans and wistful souls, quirky gamblers, aging starlets, and wily pornographers.

The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens is "a potent compound of both sex and rapture . . . sly, smart, sexy and laugh-out-loud funny, but it is also tinged with sorrow and ultimately elevated into the realm of magic" ( The Los Angeles Times Book Review).

"Ambitious and very funny . . . a tall tale, a simultaneously sweet and vicious satire of contemporary America . . . a comic tour de force and, at the same time, a truly heartfelt book." Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

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