{"product_id":"fire-island-a-queer-history-by-jack-parlett","title":"Fire Island : A Queer History by 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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":"Winding Stair Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896582984028,"sku":"","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0272\/0691\/0035\/files\/Fireisland.jpg?v=1689083056","url":"https:\/\/winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com\/products\/fire-island-a-queer-history-by-jack-parlett","provider":"Winding Stair Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}