Faggots
Larry Kramer's Faggots has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one of the best-selling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there, and reading it today is a...
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Larry Kramer's Faggots has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one of the best-selling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there, and reading it today is a fascinating look at how much, and how little, has changed.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802136916 (0802136915)
Publish date: June 1st 2000
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern Classics,
Glbt,
Queer,
M M Romance,
Gay
1.5 stars. mostly he overdoes it. i get that that's what you do if you're writing satire, but he really beats you over the head with it. too much, too much. there are some good lines, funny ways of using language (hence the .5 stars) but in general i didn't really like what i was reading. (and ...
larry kramer sure had problems with his fellow queers! a depressing and desperately unfunny read, written by someone who needed to let the love in a little. but hey, he went on to found act-up, so maybe this was a useful exorcism of sorts.
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