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The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When 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.

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Talese does not proselytize, he informs...Readable and thoroughly entertaining. -- Vogue

A sexual Pilgrim's Progress...Few writers have lived so long, traveled so far, on the frontiers of the sexual revolution. --Atlantic Monthly 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 Talese does not proselytize, he informs...Readable and thoroughly entertaining. --Vogue

Talese does not proselytize, he informs...Readable and thoroughly entertaining. --Vogue

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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.

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