The Voyeur's Motel

Author: Gay Talese

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9781611855326
  • : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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  • : June 2016
  • : 234mm X 156mm X 19mm
  • : United States
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  • : July 2016
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Barcode 9781611855326
9781611855326

Description

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. 'Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,' the letter began, 'I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.' The man went on to tell Talese a remarkable, shocking secret, so compelling that Talese travelled to Colorado to verify it in person. But because the letter-writer insisted on remaining anonymous, Talese filed his reporting away, certain the story would remain untold. Over the next thirty-five years, the man occasionally reached out to Talese to fill him in on the latest developments in his life, but he continued to insist on anonymity. Finally, after thirty-five years, he's ready to go public. In the tradition of Thy Neighbor's Wife, Talese's landmark, best-selling exploration of the sexual revolution in America, this will be a provocative, eye-opening and much-talked-about book.

Reviews

The Voyeur's Motel took my breath away. It captures the changing mores of a century, from an idyllic rural America to inexplicable mass murder at a mall. This is a brilliant, exhilarating, and haunting book. -- Frank Rich The best non-fiction writer in America. -- Mario Puzo Few writers research as thoroughly or ardently as Talese... His books are so thorough, and so passionately researched, that they seem to reproach ordinary journalists for a certain tepidness and restraint in their approach. Paris Review Talese's... prose is distinctive for its precision, its silkiness, its attention to important details that lesser journalists routinely overlooked. -- Alan Moore, author of WATCHMEN and V FOR VENDETTA The most important non-fiction writer of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters. -- David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian First-rate... Well-told stories, their social message cumulative: a drastically transformed American sexuality has emerged during the past decades. New York Times Book Review on THY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE

Author description

Gay Talese is the bestselling author of twelve books, including Thy Neighbor's Wife, Unto the Sons and Honor Thy Father. He has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, The New Yorker, Newsweek and Harper's Magazine. Owing to these articles, Tom Wolfe credited Gay Talese with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called 'The New Journalism.' Talese lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City.