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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…
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11 editions- Paperback · English · 2000Grove Press · 363 pages · 9780802136916
- Paperback · English · 1990MINERVA · 384 pages · 9780749390594
- Other · English · 2007Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9781555846671
- Other · English · 1987Plume · 1 pages · 9780452259973
- Other · English · 1987Plume · 384 pages · 9780452263963
- Other · English · 1987Plume · 1 pages · 9780452262041
Gay MenFictionFiction, romance, contemporaryFiction, gayGay men, fictionFiction, lgbtq+, gayFiction, short stories (single author)LGBTQ novels