Research Catalog
77
- Title
- 77 / Guillermo Saccomanno ; translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger.
- Author
- Saccomanno, Guillermo
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Labinger, Andrea G.
- Description
- 262 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez's favorite students, is taken away in a classroom raid, Gómez realizes that no one is safe anymore, and that asking too many questions can have lethal consequences. His life gradually becomes a paranoid, insomniac nightmare that not even his nightly forays into bars and bathhouses in search of anonymous sex can relieve. Things get even more complicated when he takes in two dissidents, putting his life at risk--especially since he's been having an affair with a homophobic, sadistic cop with ties to the military government. Told mostly in flashbacks thirty years later, 77 is rich in descriptive detail, dream sequences, and even elements of the occult, which build into a haunting novel about absence and the clash between morality and survival when living under a dictatorship"--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Seventy seven
- Subjects
- Disappeared persons
- Gay men
- Nineteen seventy-seven, A.D
- History
- High school teachers > Argentina > Buenos Aires > Fiction
- Gay men > Fiction
- Nineteen seventy-seven, A.D > Fiction
- Survival > Fiction
- Fiction
- 1955-1983
- Dictatorship > Argentina > Fiction
- Buenos Aires (Argentina) > Fiction
- Closeted gays > Fiction
- Argentina > History > 1955-1983 > Fiction
- Argentina > Buenos Aires
- Disappeared persons > Argentina > Fiction
- Political fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Psychological fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Note
- Originally published in 2008.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1911
- ISBN
- 1940953898
- 9781940953892
- OCLC
- 1050335841
- Author
- Saccomanno, Guillermo, author.
- Title
- 77 / Guillermo Saccomanno ; translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger.
- Publisher
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Chronological Term
- 1955-1983
- Added Author
- Labinger, Andrea G., translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1911