Faggots

By Larry Kramer

Book Overview

Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, Faggots is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless state of being in Great Shape. Finally he is ready to find Mr. Right. But from the Everhard Baths, to the Pines on Fire Island, to that place of myth and legend, The Meat Rack, Lemish is looking for his dream lover in all the wrong places. Faggots is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for permanence, commitment, and love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802136915
• ISBN13: 9780802136916
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Not enjoyable

This is a classic that as a gay man, we are supposed to love. I found it tedious and difficult to get through. Don't fall into the 'have to read" trap. You will not get that time back

F*****s the Title says everything

I found this book truly awful. I had a long term monogamous relationship with my lover. This novel made it seem that all the stereotypes about gay men might seem real. Read Maurice by EM Forester instead.

Unscruplously Sexy and Liberating

What an amazing journey Larry Kramer takes us on with this book. He takes us back to a time long gone but never forgotten. One of the most imporant books in gay literature.

Unbridled Genius. One of the best

It is as if James Joyce were alive and queer in 1973 New York. Kramer is an author, dramatist and activist who helped found Act-Up. In this harsh, funny, terrifying, graphic, pornographic, brilliant, compelling book, he both honors and skewers the "gay scene" of the early '70s. This book is simply required (though at times difficult) reading.