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"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.
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Författare: | Jack Parlett |
Titel: | Fire Island |
Typ: | Bok |
Kategori: | Böcker/Litteraturvetenskap |
Releasedatum: | 2023-05-04 |
Artikelnummer: | 770647 |
Lagerstatus: | Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 3 vardagar |
EAN: | 9781783787029 |
ISBN: | 1783787029 |
Språk: | Engelska |
Bandtyp: | |
Mått(BxHxD): | 129x198x17 mm |
Omfång: | 272 sidor |
Vikt: | 192 gram |
Titel: | Fire Island |
Förlag: | Faber & Faber |
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