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Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
By Parlett, Jack
- ISBN
- 9781335475183
- Publisher
- Hanover Square: Harlequin
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Reviewed on April 1, 2022 | Social Sciences
Parlett's (literary theory, Oxford Univ.; The Poetics of Cruising) literary history of Fire Island also uses memoir and social history to document gay and lesbian life and arts in the beach community on New York's Long Island. The literary side of Fire Island goes back to Walt Whitman, with an overwhelming cast of more recent luminaries (W. H. Auden, James Baldwin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
