Gustavo Pecoraro brings us a novel from Argentina with careful and fresh prose, pouring into these pages his life and that of many men born at the end of the 20th century.
In his first novel published in Spain, Gustavo Pecoraro offers us a story halfway between the autobiographical and the collective, weaving a tender and emotional narrative through two voices: the author's sexual experiences in baths and cruising spots, and his relationship with Nelly, his mother.
“There are too many things one shares with the protagonist-narrator. For those of us who were young in the eighties, the smell of love will always be that of bleach and urine; the loss of friends to the HIV pandemic, that too, because although it was thought to only affect scoundrels and therefore wasn’t so urgent, cases were getting closer, the circle was tightening, and suddenly it touched a close friend, a lover, or you.” From the prologue by José Luis Serrano.
Author Biography
Gustavo Pecoraro (Mar del Plata, 1965) is a writer, screenwriter, journalist, and poet. He has published five books, two essays, and three poetry collections. Some of his poems were included in La lira marica. Una antología de poesía homoerótica argentina (Saraza, 2022). He has contributed to the supplement Soy of Página 12, La Garganta Poderosa, Casa País, Cosecha Roja, and numerous media outlets. He hosts the podcasts Puto viejo, Aquí me pongo a contar, and Zona de respuestas. He is co-screenwriter of the documentary El puto inolvidable. Vida de Carlos Jáuregui, and screenwriter of Luces azules and Marta, vení. Currently, he is a correspondent from Madrid for Infobae; communications advisor for Fundación Huésped; and advisor in the National Congress on the Women and Diversity Commission. De querer así is his first novel.
