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Faggots

Larry Kramer

1978304 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1978
first published
  • 1978Random House · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780394410951
  • 1979Warner Books · 384 pages · ENG
  • 1984Warner Books · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780446320597
  • 1986Methuen · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780413420404
  • 1987Plume · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780452263963
  • 1990MINERVA · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780749390594
  • 2000Grove Press · 363 pages · ENGISBN 9780802136916
  • 1979Warner Books · ENGISBN 9780446951531

It is a portrayal of 1970s New York's very visible gay community in a time before AIDS. 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.

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CommitmentQuick escape

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