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GAY TALESE

Literature & Fiction

Hutchinson Radius

"An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book WorldAt long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.

Unto the Sons

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Arrow

Honor Thy Father

A classic masterwork newly updated   The electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York's notorious Bonanno crime family    On New York's Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped by two mobsters and reported by the police as dead on the following morning. More than a year later, Bonanno mysteriously reappeared, setting off a bloody mob feud that came to be known as the Banana War.   In this monumental work—packed with intimate details and brilliant reporting—bestselling author Gay Talese first brought to the American consciousness a world and a life previously known to only a few. No other book has done more to acquaint readers with the secrets, structure, wars, power plays, family lives, and fascinating, frightening personalities of the Mafia.

True Crime

Souvenir Press Ltd.

THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER: The Story of the Men Who Influence the Institution Th

Reference

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DOUBLEDAY

Fame and Obscurity

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Corgi Childrens

Arts & Literature

SPHERE

Yacker

Picador

Shore Stories: An Anthology of the Jersey Shore

<p>This acclaimed anthology takes the reader on a literary journey along the Jersey Shore from the tip of Sandy Hook to Cape May Point. More than 40 short stories, essays and poems capture this beloved stretch of sandy beaches, bays, boardwalks, and towns, along with documentary photographs and art. Contributors include nationally celebrated authors (John McPhee, Gay Talese, Robert Pinsky, among others) as well as talented writers whose work promises future acclaim. A great beach book in any season, this anthology will transport readers to the Jersey Shore wherever they may be.</p>

Sandy Gingras

John Bailey Lloyd

Kay Boyle

Robert Pinsky

Stephen Dunn

Christopher Cook Gilmore

Robert Kotlowitz

Pete Dunn

Rich Youmans

Frank Finale

Margaret Thomas Buchhholz

and other contributors

John-McPhee

william-wharton

United States

Down The Shore Publishing

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark best seller 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 an astonishing secret: that he had bought a motel to satisfy his voyeuristic desires. He had built an attic "observation platform", fitted with vents, through which he could peer down on his unwitting guests. Unsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the man - Gerald Foos - verified his story in person, and read some of his extensive journals, a secret record of America's changing social and sexual mores. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, Talese filed his reporting away, assuming the story would remain untold. Now, after 35 years, he's ready to go public, and Talese can finally tell his story. The Voyeur's Motel is an extraordinary work of narrative journalism and one of the most talked about books of the year.

Voyeur's Motel, The

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