{"product_id":"the-voyeurs-motel-paperback","title":"The Voyeur's Motel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGay Talese\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller \u003ci\u003eThy Neighbor's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe man went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret: he had bought a motel outside Denver to satisfy his voyeuristic desires. Underneath the roof of his motel, the man had built an \"observation platform,\" fitted with vents, through which he could watch his unwitting guests. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the man--Gerald Foos--and verified his story in person. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, preserving for himself the privacy he denied his guests, Talese filed his reporting away, assuming the story would remain untold. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the ensuing years, Foos occasionally reached out to Talese to fill him in on the latest developments in his life. He also sent Talese hundreds of pages of notes on his guests and their habits, work that Foos believed made him a pioneering researcher into American society and sexuality. America in microcosm had passed through the Voyeur's motel, and he witnessed and recorded the harsh effects of the war in Vietnam, the upheaval in gender roles, the decline of segregation, and much more. But Foos continued to insist on anonymity. Now, after thirty-five years, he's ready to go public and Gay Talese can finally tell his story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Voyeur's Motel\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary work of narrative journalism, at once a portrait of one complicated man, and an examination of secret lives and shifting mores in a culturally-evolving country.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGay Talese\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ocean City, New Jersey, in 1932, to Italian immigrant parents. He attended the University of Alabama, and after graduating was hired as a copyboy at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a brief stint in the army, Talese returned to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e in 1956. Since then he has written for numerous publications, including \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. It was these articles that led Tom Wolfe to credit Gay Talese with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called \"The New Journalism.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTalese's bestselling books have dealt with the history and influence of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom and the Power\u003c\/i\u003e); the inside story of a Mafia family (\u003ci\u003eHonor Thy Father\u003c\/i\u003e); his father's immigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II (\u003ci\u003eUnto the Sons\u003c\/i\u003e); and the changing moral values of America in the period between World War II and the AIDS epidemic (\u003ci\u003eThy Neighbor's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGay Talese lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 11, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757486571808,"sku":"9780802126979","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/919942018c2acc9dc91eb15334d93296.webp?v=1780104288","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-voyeurs-motel-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}