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Author : Jack Parlett Pages : 272 pages Publisher : Granta Books Language : ISBN-10 : 1783787023 ISBN-13 : 9781783787029
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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. ….