Description: The provocative report on American sexuality that shocked the world when it was first published in 1981, Gay Talese's chronicle of American permissiveness, before the age of AIDS, is also a uniquely personal odyssey into the author's private self. Includes a new foreword by the author. Previous publisher: Dell.
Brief description:
A former reporter for the New York Times, Gay Talese is a bestselling author who has written eleven books. He lives in New York City.
Review Quotes:
"A report (the result of no less than nine years of work) on just how far some of us have willingly, gladly strayed not from nineteenth-century morality, but from the kind that most of the twentieth-century has taken for granted...We are given, really, a number of well-told stories, their social message cumulative: a drastically transformed American sexuality has emerged during this past couple of decades." - New York Times Book Review
"Every man who reads it will recognize himself. Every woman will discover, perhaps for the first time, the secret fantasies and public privations, the loneliness and passionate lusts, of most men." - Chicago Sun-Times
"A sexual Pilgrim's Progress...Few writers have lived so long, traveled so far, on the frontiers of the sexual revolution." - Atlantic Monthly
"Talese does not proselytize, he informs...Readable and thoroughly entertaining." - Vogue