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Jack Parlett: Fire Island

Jack Parlett: Fire Island

Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise. UK 2022, 272 pp., hardback,  29.95
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Granta Books
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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's memoirs lead 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.
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