{"product_id":"fire-island-by-jack-parlett-9781783787029","title":"Fire Island","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia\" - Olivia Laing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, \u003cem\u003eFire Island\u003c\/em\u003e is a beaming beach read\" - Jeremy Atherton Lin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFire Island\u003c\/em\u003e: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTracing \u003cem\u003eFire Island\u003c\/em\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLyrical and vivid, \u003cem\u003eFire Island\u003c\/em\u003e is a hymn to an iconic destination, and to the men and women whose ardour and determination spread freedom across its shores.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46544246898924,"sku":"9781783787029","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2485123482823.jpg?v=1749770335","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fire-island-by-jack-parlett-9781783787029","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}