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Castle Faggot

Castle Faggot - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Derek McCormack, Dennis Cooper (Afterword by), Zac Farley (Afterword by)Series:Semiotext(e) / Native AgentsPublish date:2020-11-24Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Semiotext(e)ISBN-13:9781635901375ISBN-10:1635901375UPC:9781635901375Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Satire, LiteraryBook Topic:GaySize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC20S1CHZA
A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.

Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland, a playland for gay men, and Castle Faggot, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays--some were killed, some killed themselves, all ended up as d cor.

The book includes a map of Faggotland, a photobook of the castle, the instructions for a castle-shaped dollhouse, and the novelization of a TV puppet show about Count Choc-o-log and his friends--reminiscent of the classic stop-motion special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but even gayer and more grotesque. As scatological as Sade but with a Hanna-Barbera vibe, Castle Faggot transmutes McCormack's love of the lurid and the childlike, of funhouses and sickhouses, into something furiously funny: as Edmund White says, "the mystery of objects, the lyricism of neglected lives, the menace and nostalgia of the past--these are all ingredients in this weird and beautiful parallel universe."

Language:EnglishPublisher:Semiotext(e)ISBN-13:9781635901375ISBN-10:1635901375UPC:9781635901375Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Satire, LiteraryBook Topic:GaySize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC20S1CHZA
Derek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e)).
Publisher: Semiotext(e)

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