{"product_id":"9781783787029","title":"Fire Island : A Queer History - Jack Parlett","description":"\"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia\" - Olivia Laing\"Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read\" - Jeremy Atherton Lin---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.","brand":"Jack Parlett","offers":[{"title":"272 pages \/ 04\/05\/2023 \/ Of specific Gay \u0026 Lesbian interest","offer_id":57491705102711,"sku":"9781783787029","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781783787029.jpg?v=1790326991","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781783787029","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}