{"product_id":"9781635901375","title":"Castle Faggot","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","brand":"Derek McCormack (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46729082339540,"sku":"9781635901375","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_930ebcde-4a64-4649-8d96-4941b3aefba9.jpg?v=1755274481","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781635901375","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}