Voyeur's Motel - Rilegato

Praise for The Voyeur’s Motel:

This book flipped nearly all of my switches as a reader. It’s a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer . . . Gripping . . . [Talese] lays out what he knows and does not know in sentences that are as crisp as good Windsor knots. He expresses his qualms, but trusts the reader to come to his or her own conclusions . . . An intense book.” Dwight Garner, New York Times

Informative and intriguing . . . [I] was enlightened and entertained by The Voyeur’s Motel.” Washington Post

Talese writes with his usual elegance.” New York Times Book Review

A peculiar tale too good not to tell.” David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times

Whether Gerald Foos is telling the complete truth is almost beside the point. The Voyeur is so fascinating a character insightful, observant and amoral that the reader becomes caught up in his story.” Providence Journal

Pioneering reporter Gay Talese tells the ultimate surveillance story in The Voyeur’s Motel . . . Talese a master of elegant, understated prose uses an objective reportorial style to tell the voyeur’s story, and it’s the right approach for a narrative that requires no extra spice . . . An unforgettable book.” BookPage

Foos [is revealed] as a singularly pervy, grandiose, and strangely eloquent weirdo who would be irresistible to any writer, let alone one as talented, patient, and thoughtful as Talese . . . Those seeking a uniquely discomfiting journey couldn’t find a better pair of reprobates with whom to cast their lot.” Booklist

Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American life.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

[A] revealing case study . . . There’s a prurient charge to these vignettes, but Foos’s pretense of sexological research isn’t entirely misplaced; his accounts are well-observed, with telling details . . . and insights into the psychology behind the physicality . . . The dirty laundry here has some interesting stains.” Publishers Weekly

[A] truly shocking story . . . Not your typical beach book, perhaps, but you may want to read this compulsive page-turner which raises all sorts of fascinating journalistic, moral and legal issues under cover of an umbrella.” Barnes & Noble Review

A provocative and compelling story.” Midwest Book Review

An unsettling read . . . Foos’s notes offer a long-term glimpse into the sex lives of Americans.” Maclean’s (Canada)

A weird, fascinating and thoroughly uncomfortable story built from layers of complicity . . . Creepily fascinating reading.” Financial Times (UK)

[An] eye-popping book . . . Completely riveting from start to finish . . . Darkly comical . . . It is by turns fascinating and illuminating, very creepy and very funny, and will live in my memory long after many more doggedly accurate works have vanished into thin air.” Mail on Sunday (UK)

A riveting page-turner . . . Short and brisk, it tells a compellingly sordid story, and Foos is one fascinating dude . . . The book is compulsively readable.” Winnipeg Free Press

Gay Talese 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 New York Times.

After a brief stint in the army, Talese returned to the New York Times in 1956. Since then he has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, the New Yorker, Newsweek, and Harper’s Magazine. 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.”

Talese’s bestselling books have dealt with the history and influence of the New York Times (The Kingdom and the Power); the inside story of a Mafia family (Honor Thy Father); his father’s immigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II (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).

Gay Talese lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City.