Gay Talese
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"High Notes draws from six decades of Talese's work, from his long-form pieces for Esquire to his more autobiographical writings of the eighties and nineties to his twenty-first-century reflections on New York, New Yorkers, and the institution of which he is the longtime chronicler, the New York Times"--
Collects selected essays by the famed journalist, from the "Esquire" articles that developed into books to his biographical portraits of such celebrities...
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
At last employing his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II, Talese shares the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge--linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island--was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
The acclaimed author of Unto the Sons penetrates the silence and secrecy of the Mafia and offers an intimate look at a powerful--and vanishing--way of life. "An invaluable document".--The New York Times Book Review.
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