{"product_id":"fire-island-a-queer-history","title":"Fire Island","description":"\"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia\" - Olivia Laing\n\n\"Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read\" - Jeremy Atherton Lin\n\n---\n\nFire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation.\n\nArriving 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.\n\nTracing 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.\n\nLyrical 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":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40528544956499,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781783787029_73da9f4d-71bf-47cc-9ba6-651df64fd652.jpg?v=1764413136","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fire-island-a-queer-history","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}