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Fire Island has been a source of literary inspiration for hundreds of years. This gallery presents ten essential titles for your next Island visit, with summaries and comments.Buy these from Amazon or your favorite bookseller.
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JJJ > This 1970 paperback bestseller should be given out with round-trip ferry tickets. The book captured its times... and have things really changed all that much?

Summary: " Where New York's Money and Beauty Buy Every Pleasure Under the Sun - Fire Island. East Coast playground for the beautiful achievers. They fight hard for success. At the Island, they enjoy the rewards. FIRE ISLAND. A pleasure island where the sun comes up on last night's love. Where desire burns hotter that the summer sun, and the warm nights are drenched in the fevered search for excitement. FIRE ISLAND. Where the hot crowd comes to live out their fantasies..... "

Hirschfeld followed up with "Return to Fire Island" before going on to serialize the Dallas TV series among other projects. Before placing your Ebay order for this 509-page opus, listen to excerpts from the unbelievably demented audio version here.
JJJ > A classic back in print.

Summary: "While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter."

Hm, a typing cat. So that's how those writers do it.
JJJ > The only selection to have been made into a TV movie, this is suitable for all age groups.

SUMMARY: "While spending the summer on Fire Island, an eleven-year-old cartoonist and her brother observe the mysterious activities of their neighbor."
JJJ > Every summer vacation has its downside. Give this to the kids when they've finished spying on the neighbors:

 Summary: "Readers get a look at how doctors played detective to discover the disease, and there are color photos of the distinctive bull's-eye rash that usually announces the tick bite that causes the illness, as well as advice on how to avoid bites and what to do if bitten."

One of the many popular Lyme disease titles at Amazon.
JJJ > For the international set

Summary: "Victoria a décidé de travailler comme fille au pair à Fire Island, où Jim passera l'été. Et tant pis s'il a une petite amie à New-York. Tout peux arriver. Victoria se retrouve débordée de travail, avec deux petits enfants sur les bras et une kyrielle de corvées ménagères, mais elle est persuadée que le jeu en vaut la chandelle car d'abord Jim la remarque - et en plus elle lui plaît. Pourtant, si ses rêves se réalisent, pourquoi n'est-elle pas heureuse ?"


Available through Amazon France
JJJ > Published in 1994, this book filled a much needed void in the cooking genre, but is now sadly out of print.
JJJ > This is one of a  series of Lee Harris books involving ex-Nun/sleuth Christine Bennett, who can't seem to get through a holiday without someone getting iced. Two murders during Labor Day weekend at Fire Island- sounds about right:

Summary: "Christine Bennett, her husband Jack, and their nine-month-old son head out to New York's Fire Island for a vacation. Festivities for the island's Labor Day celebration end abruptly when the fire chief is murdered, followed by the mysterious torching of his house. Rumors soon begin to flare up about the chief's rumored affairs with a vacationing lady lawyer and a girl half his age. It's only after the second, seemingly unrelated death that the mystery moves to an exciting culmination."
JJJ > This one seems too good to be true.

Summary: "This hilarious sci-fi parody chronicles one man’s weekend vacation on Fire Island, where —amid all the cocktails, Speedos, and circuit parties —he’s hoping to find true love. But these amorous plans are foiled when a vat of toxic waste washes ashore— and it’s up to him to save Fire Island from a plague of zombie drag queens!"

Although I have not as yet procured the book,  Amazon critics are raving:
 "This book is off da meat hook, no doubt! I wish the writer would send me an e-mail"
"I liked this - I really liked it!"
"If only they could have found a way to fit a musical number in somehow..."
Buy at Amazon or directly through the publisher.
JJJ > An excerpt from "Escape from Fire Island". 

In a supreme injustice, the book now ranks 271,240 on Amazon.  Buy it and get that counter flying.
This 1970 paperback bestseller should be given out with round-trip ferry tickets. The book captured its times... and have things really changed all that much?

Summary: " Where New York's Money and Beauty Buy Every Pleasure Under the Sun - Fire Island. East Coast playground for the beautiful achievers. They fight hard for success. At the Island, they enjoy the rewards. FIRE ISLAND. A pleasure island where the sun comes up on last night's love. Where desire burns hotter that the summer sun, and the warm nights are drenched in the fevered search for excitement. FIRE ISLAND. Where the hot crowd comes to live out their fantasies..... "

Hirschfeld followed up with "Return to Fire Island" before going on to serialize the Dallas TV series among other projects. Before placing your Ebay order for this 509-page opus, listen to excerpts from the unbelievably demented audio version here.
 > This 1970 paperback bestseller should be given out with round-trip ferry tickets. The book captured its times... and have things really changed all that much?

Summary: " Where New York's Money and Beauty Buy Every Pleasure Under the Sun - Fire Island. East Coast playground for the beautiful achievers. They fight hard for success. At the Island, they enjoy the rewards. FIRE ISLAND. A pleasure island where the sun comes up on last night's love. Where desire burns hotter that the summer sun, and the warm nights are drenched in the fevered search for excitement. FIRE ISLAND. Where the hot crowd comes to live out their fantasies..... "

Hirschfeld followed up with "Return to Fire Island" before going on to serialize the Dallas TV series among other projects. Before placing your Ebay order for this 509-page opus, listen to excerpts from the unbelievably demented audio version here.
This 1970 paperback bestseller should be given out with round-trip ferry tickets. The book captured its times... and have things really changed all that much?

Summary: " Where New York's Money and Beauty Buy Every Pleasure Under the Sun - Fire Island. East Coast playground for the beautiful achievers. They fight hard for success. At the Island, they enjoy the rewards. FIRE ISLAND. A pleasure island where the sun comes up on last night's love. Where desire burns hotter that the summer sun, and the warm nights are drenched in the fevered search for excitement. FIRE ISLAND. Where the hot crowd comes to live out their fantasies..... "

Hirschfeld followed up with "Return to Fire Island" before going on to serialize the Dallas TV series among other projects. Before placing your Ebay order for this 509-page opus, listen to excerpts from the unbelievably demented audio version here.
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