Description: FIRE ISLAND - A CENTURY IN THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN PARADISE by Jack Parlett "Jack Parlett's Fire Island is that rare book: a compelling social history of a time and place that, through carefully assembled detail and astute analysis brilliantly illuminates American culture as well as its topic. Its expansive cast of characters--Frank O'Hara, W.H. Auden, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers Tennessee Williams, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patricia Highsmith-- demonstrate that Fire Island was a crucible of brilliance and creativity as well sexual and personal freedom. Interlacing insightful observations with flashes of personal memoir Parlett beautifully conjures Fire Island as myth, metaphor, and microcosm of queer culture that profoundly changed American culture."--Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States "The zingy tale of one magnetic place -- as well as a sprawling rumination on the intertwined urges to get away and get together. Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read."--Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar
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Location: Palm Springs, California
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Literary Movement: LGBTQ+ History
Signed: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Dust Jacket
Original Language: English
Book Title: Fire Island : a Century in the Life of an American Paradise
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Ulc
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), United States / 20th Century, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), Lgbt
Item Height: 0.9 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Author: Jack Parlett
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
