The Voyeur's Motel
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802125816 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Praise for The Voyeur’s Motel:Named a Best Book of the Year by the Daily Mail (Event Critics’ Selection) “This book flipped nearly all of my switches as a reader. The Voyeur is so fascinating a characterinsightful, observant and amoralthat the reader becomes caught up in his story.”Providence Journal “If you’ve ever wanted your inner voyeur to run free, vicariously at least, then The Voyeur’s Motel is for you Motel delves deeply into the taboo world with no holds barred and no excuses The type of unfl
Now, after thirty-five 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.. 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 manGerald Foosverified his story in person, and read some of his extensive journals, a secret record of America’s changing social and sexual mores. 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. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, Talese filed his reporting away, assuming the story would remain untold. On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado
"Amazing subject matter, disappointing presentation." according to Stahrr. I pre-ordered this book after reading a lengthy, well-written article about it. The article fascinated me and my fiance so much we immediately pre-ordered and couldn't wait for it to be released. When we finally got it we both wanted to read it first.Unfortunately, the book itself was d. BBH said enough to ruin some damn fine fantasies. In short. Gay Talese doesn't have a cold, but he is badly slipping. This is a book that never should have been written by a major author, let alone published by a major publishing house. It is well beneath Talese's previous works of narrative nonfiction. It is a story that held up at magazine len. "Don't waste your money" according to Margaret's Dad. If you read the New Yorker article, you already got 90% of the story. It's basically a repetitive version of that article with a few additional anecdotes sprinkled in. I was hoping for a more thorough exploration of Foos' psychology as well as some additional historical and social conte