About this title: Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.
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Edition: First Plume Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780452259973ISBN:0452259975
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Moderate wear. Pages good. 384 pages. 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 More...reading it today is a fascinating look at how much, and how little, has changed. Few bookstore marks. read more
Description: Reader copy. This book has medium cover wear, spine creases, light spine tilt, light creases on covers, ~1 in tear on cover edges, light natural browning on covers-page edges. I will ship this book out on the next business day! Each book individually hand cleaned. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plume Books, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780452263963ISBN:0452263964
Description: Very Good- No Jacket. 1.0 x 5.2 x 8.0 inches. 384pp. Has light wear. Pages Browning. Internally Clean. Lang: English. Vols: 1, Wt: 2lbs. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Minerva
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780749390594ISBN:074939059X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight with reading crease. Cover shiny and attractive with light edge/shelf wear (includes price sticker, small corner creasing, chips). A very nice, sturdy copy. Gently used. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780394410951ISBN:0394410955
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. There are a few pages with some stains and a purple dot on the outside bottow edge. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780802136916ISBN:0802136915
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Description: Kramer, Larry., Random House, nd, c1978, 3rd printing, cloth, vg-f w/dj, 304 pps, 9 1/2' x 6 1/2', 'Faggots may shock many readers by its explicit portrayal of a world and life style...' $15.00. read more
"It just gets it right. Fine, it's pessimistic in ways and even maybe a somewhat self-hating or at least reductive portrayal of a marginalized group in 1970s NYC. But it's compelling, funny as all hell and its indictments should perhaps--given their author--be regarded as efforts to rile up the community enough to claim their rights and not bind themselves to, well, marginalization. Kramer is the man who asked, "Where is your anger?" 30 years after this book was published. He's been asking his whole life and no one seems to get it."
"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."
"So far this book as been true to form on what transpires in the gay community. Whether its was back in the 70's or present day. We have all experienced or been privy to the ramped drugs scene at all the clubs as well as those curcuit parties. What I still to this day don't understand is when gay men who spend hours and hours in the gym to develop the supposed perfect body to attact only the same type of guy (if they are lucky). But then some of those same men that only work on their outer-shells then head to these club and/or curcuit parties and continually pump their chiseled & well defined body with all sort of drugs. WTF????
Ahhhh male to male relationships, Larry hits this topic out of the park for me. I think any gay man who reads this book can relate to any one of these characters who is looking for LOVE - L' Amour-L'Amour.... You could be looking for THE ONE for LIFE, or THE ONE for THAT NIGHT, or for THE ONE THAT HOUR. Again my opinion, but I am thankful that we have the ability to have these type of experiences-relationships. So when you reach a point in your life and are done with 'THAT GAY SCENE' you are able to ascertain almost exactly what you want in a guy and in a long-term relationship. What works, what doesn't and how to perceiver together as a couple to make a lasting and loving match (hopefully for life)."
"So, I couldn't keep an interest for more than 30 or so pages. I decided to read this book because Randy Shilts praised Larry Kramer as a revolutionary gay (and later AIDS) activist who broke through all of these boundaries and really garnered a lot of heat from all angles with the publication of this work of fiction.
However, I was ultimately disappointed. The writing was not entirely easy to follow, the prose was poorly written, and the characters were either flat or just plain un-memorable.
Perhaps in a few more years I'll give this book another try. For now I'm returning it to the library and focusing on books that can grab me in the first 50 or so pages."
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