I Know a Place: A Fire Island Story
Author: Emily S. Brafman
Publisher:
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781620865972
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Fire Island Modernist
Author: Christopher Bascom Rawlins
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781938922091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York's Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Pairing this sensitivity with jazzy improvisations on modernist themes, he perfected a sustainable modernism in cedar and glass that was as attuned to natural landscapes as to our animal natures. Gifford's serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Celebrities lived in modestly scaled homes alongside middle-class vacationers, all with equal access to Fire Island's natural beauty. Blending cultural and architectural history, this book ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life, work and colorful milieu trace the operatic arc of a lost generation, and still resonate with artistic and historical import.
Escape from Fire Island!
Author: James H. English
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1594749167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Can you save fire island before it’s too late? It was supposed to be a nice, relaxing weekend—with a little swimming, a lot of cocktails, and more hot bods than a year’s subscription to Men’s Health magazine. But when a vat of radioactive waste washes onto the beach, strange things start happening—and now an army of zombie drag queens is storming the coast! Can you save Fire Island before it’s too late? Or will you perish at the hands of a thousand shrieking divas? It all depends on the choices YOU make. If you run toward the nearest ferry terminal, turn to page 44. If you flirt with the cute twink, turn to page 55. If you throw caution to the wind and join the nearest circuit party, turn to page 80. What happens next? That depends on YOU! How does the story end? Only YOU can find out! Best of all, you can read this book again and again until you’ve had 29 amazing adventures!
Cherry Grove, Fire Island
Author: Esther Newton
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2015-02-20
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0822377217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1993, the award-winning Cherry Grove, Fire Island tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.
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Fire Island
Author: Shoshanna McCollum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0738591335
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fire Island is a string of communities and parks, gay and straight bars, boats and bridges, beach umbrellas and bungalows--all bound together by the pristine white sand of the island's beach. This 32-mile-long barrier island off the coast of Long Island has been defined by legendary shipwrecks and heroic lifesaving in the 19th century, but also kindled by menacing storms and a web of sociological intrigue as an upwardly mobile American middle class sought out vacation homes and coastal recreation during the 20th century. From cholera protests at the Surf Hotel in 1892 to a grassroots campaign to prevent a highway that ultimately established Fire Island National Seashore in 1964, Fire Island's history is a grand melodrama that has caught world attention.
Fire on the Beach
Author: David Wright
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780195154849
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Civil War to the turn of the century, this is the true-life story of the original Coast Guard and one crew of African-American heroes who fought storms and saved lives off America's southeastern coast. 31 halftones.
Faggots
Author: Larry Kramer
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780802136916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.
Robert's Tall Friend
Author: Vivian Farrell
Publisher:
Published: 1997-10
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780965752473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Relates the story, based in fact, of how a young boy's move to Fire Island, where his father is a National Park Service Ranger, is strategic in the restoring to service of the island's crumbling old lighthouse.
Fire on the Island
Author: Timothy Jay Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1950691640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For lovers of crime fiction and the allure of the Greek islands, Fire on the Island is the perfect summer read. ** "Smith offers the perfect blend of intrigue, romance, and travelogue."—Publishers Weekly ** FIRE ON THE ISLAND is a playful, romantic thriller set in contemporary Greece, with a gay Greek-American FBI agent, who is undercover on the island to investigate a series of mysterious fires. Set against the very real refugee crisis on the beautiful, sun-drenched Greek islands, this novel paints a loving portrait of a community in crisis. As the island residents grapple with declining tourism, poverty, refugees, family feuds, and a perilously damaged church, an arsonist invades their midst. Nick Damigos, the FBI agent, arrives on the island just in time to witness the latest fire and save a beloved truffle-sniffing dog. Hailed as a hero and embraced by the community, Nick finds himself drawn to Takis, a young bartender who becomes his primary suspect, which is a problem because they’re having an affair. Theirs is not the only complicated romance in the community and Takis isn’t the only suspicious character on the island. The priest is an art forger, a young Albanian waiter harbors a secret, the captain of the coast guard station seems to have his own agenda, and the village itself hides a violent history. Nick has to unravel the truth in time to prevent catastrophe, as he comes to terms with his own past trauma. In saving the village, he will go a long way toward saving himself. A long time devotee of the Greek islands, Smith paints the setting with gorgeous color and empathy, ushering in a new romantic thriller with the charm of Zorba the Greek while shedding bright light on the very real challenges of life in contemporary Greece.
