Castle Faggot

Castle Faggot
Derek Mccormack
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Paperback
h203 x 137mm - 144pg
24 Nov 2020 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781635901375
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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 decor. 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. "
In Derek McCormack' s home province, farm boys with growing pains enjoy a little-known meal called bed-supper--a hearty bowl of sweet breakfast cereal enjoyed as a midnight snack. Here McCormack has composed a peculiarly salacious bed-supper, where the long secret sweet-tooth of the Marquis de Sade glints as it sinks into the dirtiest of dishes. This useful book will more than stay your appetite until breakfast--Castle Faggot is also a manual of redecoration, a musical, a puppet show, a theory of cosmetics, a work of poetics, and a glorious celebration of the French decadence. --Lisa Robertson, author of The Baudelaire Fractal It is really just one of the best books ever, and maybe the greatest novel ever written. --Dennis Cooper, author of The Marbled Swarm
Derek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e))
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781635901375
Published: 24 Nov 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Publisher: Semiotext (E)
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 137mm
Pages: 144

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