{"product_id":"fire-island-love-loss-and-liberation-in-an-american-paradise","title":"Jack Parlett: Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise [2022] hardback","description":"\"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia\" - Olivia Laing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read\" - Jeremy Atherton Lin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArriving 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLyrical 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.","brand":"Parlett, Jack","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42340209393849,"sku":"9781783787005","price":22.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/parlett-jack-jack-parlett-fire-island-love-loss-and-liberation-in-an-american-paradise-2022-hardback-9781783787005-60570447216979.jpg?v=1735536902","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/fire-island-love-loss-and-liberation-in-an-american-paradise","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}