Gay talese thy neighbors wife
Thy Neighbor's Wife
"When first publishedThy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a new nature built on a new moral foundation, carrying the reader on a remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of -- the growth of the porn industry, the rise of the "swinger" customs, the legal fight to describe obscenity, and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans glance at themselves and one another."--Publisher's website.
The Postscript
In the summer of , Same-sex attracted Talese, who has been credited by Tom Wolfe as the founder of the New Journalism, appeared at the center of a controversy. The creator of 14 books, including such literary journalism classics as The Kingdom and the Power (), Honor Thy Father (), Thy Neighbor’s Wife (), and the magazine article some consider to be the finest ever, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” (Esquire, April ), Talese’s reputation had a long way to fall. Novelist Mario Puzo declared him “the top nonfiction writer in America,” Barbara Lounsberry called him “a reporter’s reporter who is revered by fellow writers,” and Robert Boynton declared him the “poet of the commonplace” who has demonstrated “that one could write great literary nonfiction about the ‘ordinary.’” Lad Tobin has praised Talese’s approach to his deeply investigated subjects, which involve “an industriousness and principles too often missing in the labor of the fresh generation of writers of creative nonfiction.” In particular, Talese has been cited as an exemplar of the long-haul investigation, “the Art of Hanging
Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife (Paperback)
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Description
The provocative classic work newly updated
An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape
When first published, Gay Talese's groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a new planet built on a fresh moral foundation, carrying the reader on a extraordinary journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbia&#;through the development of the porn industry, the climb of the "swinger" identity, the legal fight to define obscenity, and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one another.
About the Author
A former reporter for the New York Times, Male lover Talese is a bestselling author who has written eleven books. He lives
The Story&#;s Story
To read the new edition of Homosexual Talese&#;s Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife as someone who grew up in the era of American Pie and its considerably less tame Internet cousins is to step backwards into a time that, for many people, still exists. To judge from the nattering both on- and off-line, the debate goes, despite the sense of inevitability that Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife imparts; perhaps, as Jamais Cascio quotes William Gibson as saying in The Atlantic article &#;Get Smart,&#; &#;The future is already here, it&#;s just unevenly distributed.&#;
But it&#;s not at all clear that the vision implied by Talese will ever arrive for most people, or even that Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife is the &#;Timeless Classic&#; promised by the cover. The book is more an essay collection than book and feels the same malady as Joan Didion&#;s Slouching Towards Bethlehem: age. To me, the mores of the s seem quaint, Bill O&#;Reilly&#;s silliness and faux outrage notwithstanding, and erotic hypocrisy in the media and culture at large is both well-known and documented, as it long has been.