{"product_id":"semiotext-e-native-agentsisbn-9781635901376","title":"Semiotext(e) \/ Native Agents","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCastle Faggot\u003c\/i\u003e is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland, a playland for gay men, and Castle Faggot, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays—some were killed, some killed themselves, all ended up as décor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes a map of Faggotland, a photobook of the castle, the instructions for a castle-shaped dollhouse, and the novelization of a TV puppet show about Count Choc-o-log and his friends—reminiscent of the classic stop-motion special \u003ci\u003eRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\u003c\/i\u003e, but even gayer and more grotesque. As scatological as Sade but with a Hanna-Barbera vibe, \u003ci\u003eCastle Faggot\u003c\/i\u003e transmutes McCormack's love of the lurid and the childlike, of funhouses and sickhouses, into something furiously funny: as Edmund White says, “the mystery of objects, the lyricism of neglected lives, the menace and nostalgia of the past—these are all ingredients in this weird and beautiful parallel universe.”\u003c\/p\u003e\"In Derek McCormack’s home province, farm boys with growing pains enjoy a little-known meal called bed-supper—a hearty bowl of sweet breakfast cereal enjoyed as a midnight snack. Here McCormack has composed a peculiarly salacious bed-supper, where the long secret sweet-tooth of the Marquis de Sade glints as it sinks into the dirtiest of dishes. This useful book will more than stay your appetite until breakfast—\u003ci\u003eCastle Faggot\u003c\/i\u003e is also a manual of redecoration, a musical, a puppet show, a theory of cosmetics, a work of poetics, and a glorious celebration of the French decadence.\"—Lisa Robertson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Baudelaire Fractal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is really just one of the best books ever, and maybe the greatest novel ever written.\"—Dennis Cooper, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marbled Swarm\u003c\/i\u003eDerek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Show that Smells\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Well-Dressed Wound\u003c\/i\u003e (Semiotext(e)).","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303027429605,"sku":"NP9781635901376","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781635901375_3f8c4e6d-37c6-4dfa-acd5-5c6a52c4efa5.jpg?v=1730752790","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/semiotext-e-native-agentsisbn-9781635901376","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}