Format | Hardcover |
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Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise
$26.78 Save:$8.00(22%)
Available in stock
Print length: | 272 pages |
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Language: | English |
Publisher: | Granta |
Publication date: | 2 August 2022 |
Dimensions: | 13.5 x 1.9 x 21.6 cm |
ISBN-10: | 1783787007 |
ISBN-13: | 978-1783787005 |
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Description
A scintillating, richly peopled, impeccably researched history of the New York coastal enclave that, over the last century, became an iconic site of queer liberation. Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation. Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here were the halcyon scenes of Frank O’Hara’s poetry; the bars where Patricia Highsmith got drunk; the infamous cruising sites; and the dazzling beaches where couples had fallen in and out of love, free for a sun-kissed moment to be themselves in the time before gay liberation. Tracing Fire Island’s rich history, Parlett leads the reader through the early days of the island’s life as a discreet home for same-sex love, to the wild parties of the post-Stonewall disco era, to the residents’ confrontation with the AIDS epidemic, and into a present where a host of new challenges threaten the island’s future. Lyrical and vivid, Fire Island is a hymn to an iconic destination, and to the men and women whose ardour and determination spread freedom across its shores. | ASIN : 1783787007 | ISBN13 : 9781783787005.0 | ISBN-13 : 978-1783787005
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