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The Voyeur&#;s Motel
On January 7, , in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten letter from a man in Colorado. &#;Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,&#; the letter began, &#;I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.&#;
The gentleman went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret: he had bought a motel outside Denver for the express purpose of satisfying his voyeuristic desires. Underneath the peaked roof of his motel, the man had built an &#;observation platform,&#; fitted with vents, through which he could peer down on his unwitting guests.
Unsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the man—Gerald Foos—and verified his story in person. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, preserving for himself the privacy he denied his guests, Talese filed his reporting away, assuming
The Voyeur's Motel
On January 7, , in the run-up to the publication of his landmark top seller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long-awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book." The man went on to inform Talese an astonishing secret: that he had bought a motel to satisfy his voyeuristic desires. He had built an attic "observation platform", fitted with vents, through which he could peer down on his unwitting guests.
Unsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the man - Gerald Foos - verified his story in person, and read some of his extensive journals, a secret log of America's changing social and sexual mores. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, Talese filed his reporting away, assuming the story would remain untold. Now, after 35 years, he's ready to go public, and Talese can finally tell his story.
The Voyeur's M If you’ve ever wanted your inner voyeur to run free, vicariously at least, then “The Voyeur’s Motel” (Grove Press) is for you. If you shudder at the thought of such licentiousness, avoid this book! What E.L. James’ erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” did in opening the door for mass circulation books regarding bondage, sadism and masochism, Gay Talese’s nonfiction book “The Voyeur’s Motel” is likely to do for voyeurism. Not for the faint of heart, “Motel” delves deeply into the taboo world with no holds barred and no excuses. Moral boundaries are out the window (literally!). “Motel” is the genuine life story of a noun who bought and operated a motel solely for the purpose of spying on his guests, keeping graphically detailed notes of intimate moments. Talese is no stranger to documenting the racier side of modern life with his previous groundbreaking “Thy Neighbor’s Wife” () exploring sexuality in America from after World War II to the s. In fact, writes Talese, it was this serve that led Ge A Peeping Tom with delusions of grandeur takes notes on the human condition in this tawdry but revealing case study. Journalist Talese (Thy Neighbor's Wife) was contacted in by Gerald Foos, a Colorado motel owner who spied on guests from the motel attic through fake ceiling vents, meticulously recording his own observations. (Talese is releasing the book now because Foos recently released him from a confidentiality agreement.) The book's heart consists of excerpts from Foos's decades-long observations of the guests' sex acts and other interactions; these include perfunctory marital couplings, clandestine trysts, florid swinger parties, goat costumes, an ugly bout of incest, a possible murder, and other lesser crimes. (Foos sometimes tricked guests into thinking a suitcase held $1, cash to see if they would try to snatch it; most did, including a minister.) There's a prurient charge to these vignettes, but Foos's pretense of sexological research isn't entirely misplaced; his accounts are well-observed, with telling details%EBook review: 'The Voyeur's Motel'
The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese. Grove, $25 (p) ISBN