Johnny Rio, un guapo narcisista pero que ya no es un niño bonito, viaja a Los Ángeles, el sitio de la conquista sexual pasada y el resplandor juvenil recordado, en un intento frenético de recrear su yo más joven. Johnny tiene diez días preciosos para dibujar los "números", los hombres que confirmarán su atractivo, y con la atención hambrienta de un hombre en el tiempo prestado, acecha los balcones oscuros de los teatros que permanecen abiertos toda la noche, las arenas calientes de las playas alegres, y cañadas sombrías de los parques de la ciudad, tratando de atraer a los cazadores de sexo sombríos en una batalla obsesiva contra el final de su juventud.
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John Rechy, a first-generation Mexican American who has chronicled gay life in America, received the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement in 2018. He is the author of twelve novels, among them the New York Times bestseller Numbers, the Los Angeles Times bestsellers Rushes and The Coming of the Night, as well as The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez and two nonfiction books. He has received many awards, including PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Patrick O’Brian (1914–2000), a translator and author of biographies, was best known as the author of the highly acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin series of historical novels. Set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars ,this twenty-volume series centers on the enduring friendship between naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician and spy Stephen Maturin. The Far Side of the World, the tenth book in the series, was adapted into a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany. The film was nominated for ten Oscars, including Best Picture. He wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks. He also translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture’s biographies of Charles de Gaulle.