Copyright © 1983 by John Rechy

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An excerpt from Bodies and Souls has appeared in Oui magazine.

Published simultaneously in Canada

Printed in the United States of America

FIRST GROVE PRESS EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rechy, John.

       Bodies and souls: a novel / by John Rechy.

              p. cm.

       ISBN 9781555847241

       1. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction. 2. Mexican American families—Fiction. 3. Runaway teenagers—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.E28 B6 2001

813′54—dc21                                   2001040158

Grove Press

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