Thy Neighbor's Wife

Author: Professor Gay Talese

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  • : $32.00 AUD
  • : 9780061665431
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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  • : 203mm X 135mm X 28mm
  • : United States
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  • : Professor Gay Talese
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Barcode 9780061665431
9780061665431

Description

The provocative classic work newly updatedAn intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscapeWhen first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a new world built on a new moral foundation, carrying the reader on a remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbia--through the development of the porn industry, the rise of the -swinger- culture, the legal fight to define obscenity, and the daily sex lives of -ordinary- people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one another.