Common Language

Saturday, November 18

4:00 p.m.

“Give me chastity and self-restraint, but not just right now.”

—The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Common Language is proud to present Salvatore Sapienza on Saturday, November 18th at Common Language Bookstore to read from and discuss his new book, Seventy Time Seven.  Reception provided by the \aut\ BAR will follow.

Seventy Time Seven is Sal's debut novel. It is a poignant, sexy, funny, and romantic novel set in the early 1990s about a young man's struggle to integrate his religious beliefs with his sexual desires. The gap between sexuality and spirituality is punctuated throughout the novel with quotes from the Scripture, and from song lyrics from Prince and Madonna, artists who merged the two worlds in provocative and groundbreaking fashion. Vito struggles too, with the idealism that drives his desire to change the archaic ways of the Catholic Church and its views on AIDS and homosexuality.