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The voyeur's motel / Gay Talese.

by Talese, Gay.

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Grove Press, 2016.

Motels -- Colorado -- Denver.

Sex customs -- United States.

9780802125811 (hc.)

233 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

"On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller 'Thy Neighbor's Wife,' Gay Talese received an anonymous handwrittern 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: 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. Unsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the man--Gerald Foos--and verified his story in person. Gay Talese has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, the New Yorker, Newsweek, and Harper’s Magazine. His books have dealt with a Mafia family (Honor Thy Father); his father’s immigration to America (Unto the Sons); and the changing moral values of America in the period between World War II and the AIDS epidemic (Thy Neighbor’s Wife)."--Provided by publisher.

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