Fire Island : love, loss and liberation in an American paradise
Parlett, Jack, 1992-2023
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Total copies: 1
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. 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.
Main title:
Fire Island : love, loss and liberation in an American paradise / Jack Parlett.
Author:
Parlett, Jack, 1992-, author
Imprint:
London : Granta Books, 2023.
Collation:
272 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781783787029 (pbk)
Dewey class:
974.725
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
636150