NEIGHBORS WIFE - Softcover

Talese, Gay

3.95

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ISBN 10: 0440186897 ISBN 13: 9780440186892

Publisher: Dell, 1981

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Gay Talese spent the 1970s studying the Sexual Revolution in the USA and threw himself into his work with enthusiasm. He actively lived the life he studied and the results of his countless interviews and participation in the Sexual Revolution are as relevant today as they were then. Group sex, swinging, bisexuality and polyamory are all covered in detail. While not an exhaustive history, but rather a look at selective people and their impact on the times, including John and Barbara Williamson's Sandstone Retreat, and John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community - a precursor to the open sexuality of the 70s. - the author's skills give it an academic merit. The Oneida Community was built on Noyes' concepts of Perfectionism which included communal sharing that extended to sexual relationships. Less erotically, Talese also reports on the Supreme Court, its decisions, the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, and the Nixon White House's response to the loosening sexual climate. A 20 page alphabetic Index completes the work with entries from Abortion to Emile Zola. The history of sexually explicit publishing and is among the most comprehensive ever published. "A Wonderful study of this period and the people involved." NY Times Book Review. First Published in 1980 by Doubleday, this Dell mass-market paperback reprint followed in 1981 with ISBN 0-440-18689-7. Reprinted many times since.

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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

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"

-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

About the Author:

Gay Talese was a reporter for The New York Times from 1956 to 1965. Since then he has written for The New York Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and other national publications. He is the author of 13 books. He lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City.

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