Castle Faggot / Derek McCormack ; afterword by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCormack, Derek, author.

Contributor:

Cooper, Dennis, writer of afterword.

Farley, Zac, writer of afterword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amusement parks--Fiction.

Amusement parks.

Gay men--Fiction.

Gay men.

Satire.

Genre:

Fiction.

Satire.

Satirical literature.

Physical Description:

98 pages: illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext (e), [2020]

Summary:

"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 décor. 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."-- Provided by publisher

ISBN:

1635901375

9781635901375

OCLC:

1140707811