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GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802125816
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9780802125811
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Book Title
Voyeur's Motel
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Political Science / Privacy & Surveillance), Sociology / General, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
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2016
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Social Science, Psychology
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Hardcover
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Praise for The Voyeur''s Motel : Named a Best Book of the Year by the Daily Mail (Event Critics'' Selection) "This book flipped nearly all of my switches as a reader. It''s a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm''s The Journalist and the Murderer . . . Gripping . . . [Talese] lays out what he knows and does not know in sentences that are as crisp as good Windsor knots. He expresses his qualms, but trusts the reader to come to his or her own conclusions . . . An intense book." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Informative and intriguing . . . [I] was enlightened and entertained by The Voyeur''s Motel ." -- Washington Post "This is a weird book about weird people doing weird things, and I wouldn''t have put it down if the house were on fire." -- Washington Times "Whether Gerald Foos is telling the complete truth is almost beside the point. The Voyeur is so fascinating a character--insightful, observant and amoral--that the reader becomes caught up in his story." -- Providence Journal "If you''ve ever wanted your inner voyeur to run free, vicariously at least, then The Voyeur''s Motel is for you . . . Motel delves deeply into the taboo world with no holds barred and no excuses . . . The type of unflinching New Journalism that Talese helped found three decades ago." -- Jackson Clarion Ledger "Pioneering reporter Gay Talese tells the ultimate surveillance story in The Voyeur''s Motel . . . Talese--a master of elegant, understated prose--uses an objective reportorial style to tell the voyeur''s story, and it''s the right approach for a narrative that requires no extra spice . . . An unforgettable book." -- BookPage "Foos [is revealed] as a singularly pervy, grandiose, and strangely eloquent weirdo who would be irresistible to any writer, let alone one as talented, patient, and thoughtful as Talese . . . Those seeking a uniquely discomfiting journey couldn''t find a better pair of reprobates with whom to cast their lot." -- Booklist "Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American life." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] truly shocking story . . . Not your typical beach book, perhaps, but you may want to read this compulsive page-turner--which raises all sorts of fascinating journalistic, moral and legal issues--under cover of an umbrella." -- Barnes & Noble Review "A provocative and compelling story." -- Midwest Book Review "Talese is a master at finding and reporting intimate matters in a clean, fine prose style so that the pages fly by. Thus the odd subject of Talese''s book is transparently manifest, without a biased or judgmental eye, all the better to reveal what Foos has done." -- Psychodynamic Psychiatry "An unsettling read . . . Foos''s notes offer a long-term glimpse into the sex lives of Americans." -- Maclean''s (Canada) " The Voyeur''s Motel . . . had me hooked . . . It''s an unsettling book, like being trapped in a hall of mirrors. The reader observes Talese observing Foos observing his guests. It might make you lose your bearings, but at the same time it''s completely mesmerising, and often darkly funny, too." -- Daily Mail (UK) (Event Critics'' Best Books of the Year) "[An] eye-popping book . . . Completely riveting from start to finish . . . Darkly comical . . . It is by turns fascinating and illuminating, very creepy and very funny, and will live in my memory long after many more doggedly accurate works have vanished into thin air." -- Mail on Sunday (UK) "A riveting page-turner . . . Short and brisk, it tells a compellingly sordid story, and Foos is one fascinating dude . . . The book is compulsively readable." -- Winnipeg Free Press, Praise for Gay Talese: "The most important nonfiction writer of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters." --David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian "He is a reporter, true enough, but one with the eyes and ears of an artist." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "The best non-fiction writer in America." --Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather "Talese . . . as he has proven again and again with his books, is a master of the narrative art." --William Kennedy, author of Ironweed and Roscoe "Talese's . . . prose [is] distinctive for its precision, its silkiness, its attention to important details that lesser journalists routinely overlooked." --Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta "[Talese's] legacy is twofold. First, he is the indefatigable reporter whose books and articles are the product of extensive research. Second, he is the poet of the commonplace, the writer who demonstrated that one could write great literary nonfiction about the ''ordinary' . . . Talese . . . slowly drills down through the mundane subterranean reality of human existence to its ''fictional' core." --Robert S. Boynton, author of The New New Journalism "Few writers research as thoroughly or ardently as Talese . . . His books are so thorough, and so passionately researched, that they seem to reproach ordinary journalists for a certain tepidness and restraint in their approach." -- Paris Review "A masterful New Journalism pioneer . . . raises the magazine article to the level of an art form." -- Los Angeles Times "In a culture of success and celebrity, Gay Talese has always found his best subjects in failure and decline: Joe DiMaggio in his lonely eclipse; Joshua Logan in the midst of terrible depressions; Floyd Patterson struggling to express what it is to be knocked flat in front of a filled stadium. Talese's lapidary style and impeccable reporting standards have endured far better than the work of some of his more histrionic New Journalism contemporaries." -- New Yorker "Talese is a masterful writer, whose seamless, thought-provoking prose carries the reader as effortlessly as a gondolier in a Venice canal." -- San Diego Union-Tribune "[Gay Talese's] quirky, personal nonfiction, in which the author is very much a presence, helped spawn a whole new approach to feature writing." -- Booklist "Mr. Talese's insight will do more to help us understand the criminal than any amount of moral recrimination." -- Times Literary Supplement "Talese finds the poignant in the everyday" -- Publishers Weekly "Talese is a shining example for all writers." -- Times (Indianapolis) "A masterpiece of cultural observation." -- Paris Review , on Thy Neighbor's Wife "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 , on Thy Neighbor's Wife "First-rate . . . Well-told stories, their social message cumulative: a drastically transformed American sexuality has emerged during [the] past decades" -- New York Times Book Review , on Thy Neighbor's Wife "Talese does not proselytize, he informs . . . Readable and thoroughly entertaining." -- Vogue , on Thy Neighbor's Wife "Engrossing and provocative." -- Library Journal, on Thy Neighbor's Wife, Praise for The Voyeur's Motel : "This book flipped nearly all of my switches as a reader. It's a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer . . . Gripping . . . [Talese] lays out what he knows and does not know in sentences that are as crisp as good Windsor knots. He expresses his qualms, but trusts the reader to come to his or her own conclusions . . . An intense book." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Informative and intriguing . . . [I] was enlightened and entertained by The Voyeur's Motel ." -- Washington Post "Talese writes with his usual elegance." -- New York Times Book Review "A peculiar tale too good not to tell." --David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times "Whether Gerald Foos is telling the complete truth is almost beside the point. The Voyeur is so fascinating a character--insightful, observant and amoral--that the reader becomes caught up in his story." -- Providence Journal "Pioneering reporter Gay Talese tells the ultimate surveillance story in The Voyeur's Motel . . . Talese--a master of elegant, understated prose--uses an objective reportorial style to tell the voyeur's story, and it's the right approach for a narrative that requires no extra spice . . . An unforgettable book." -- BookPage "Foos [is revealed] as a singularly pervy, grandiose, and strangely eloquent weirdo who would be irresistible to any writer, let alone one as talented, patient, and thoughtful as Talese . . . Those seeking a uniquely discomfiting journey couldn't find a better pair of reprobates with whom to cast their lot." -- Booklist "Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American life." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] revealing case study . . . 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 . . . and insights into the psychology behind the physicality . . . The dirty laundry here has some interesting stains." -- Publishers Weekly "[A] truly shocking story . . . Not your typical beach book, perhaps, but you may want to read this compulsive page-turner--which raises all sorts of fascinating journalistic, moral and legal issues--under cover of an umbrella." -- Barnes & Noble Review "A provocative and compelling story." -- Midwest Book Review "An unsettling read . . . Foos's notes offer a long-term glimpse into the sex lives of Americans." -- Maclean's (Canada) "A weird, fascinating and thoroughly uncomfortable story built from layers of complicity . . . Creepily fascinating reading." -- Financial Times (UK) "[An] eye-popping book . . . Completely riveting from start to finish . . . Darkly comical . . . It is by turns fascinating and illuminating, very creepy and very funny, and will live in my memory long after many more doggedly accurate works have vanished into thin air." -- Mail on Sunday (UK) "A riveting page-turner . . . Short and brisk, it tells a compellingly sordid story, and Foos is one fascinating dude . . . The book is compulsively readable." -- Winnipeg Free Press, Advance Praise for The Voyeur's Motel : "Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American life." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] revealing case study . . . 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 . . . and insights into the psychology behind the physicality . . . The dirty laundry here has some interesting stains." -- Publishers Weekly "[A] truly shocking story . . . Not your typical beach book, perhaps, but you may want to read this compulsive page-turner--which raises all sorts of fascinating journalistic, moral and legal issues--under cover of an umbrella." -- Barnes & Noble Review Praise for Gay Talese: "The most important nonfiction writer of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters." --David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian "He is a reporter, true enough, but one with the eyes and ears of an artist." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Talese . . . as he has proven again and again with his books, is a master of the narrative art." --William Kennedy, author of Ironweed and Roscoe "Talese's . . . prose [is] distinctive for its precision, its silkiness, its attention to important details that lesser journalists routinely overlooked." --Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta "In a culture of success and celebrity, Gay Talese has always found his best subjects in failure and decline: Joe DiMaggio in his lonely eclipse; Joshua Logan in the midst of terrible depressions; Floyd Patterson struggling to express what it is to be knocked flat in front of a filled stadium. Talese's lapidary style and impeccable reporting standards have endured far better than the work of some of his more histrionic New Journalism contemporaries." -- New Yorker, Praise for The Voyeur's Motel : Named a Best Book of the Year by the Daily Mail (Event Critics' Selection) "This book flipped nearly all of my switches as a reader. It's a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer . . . Gripping . . . [Talese] lays out what he knows and does not know in sentences that are as crisp as good Windsor knots. He expresses his qualms, but trusts the reader to come to his or her own conclusions . . . An intense book." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Informative and intriguing . . . [I] was enlightened and entertained by The Voyeur's Motel ." -- Washington Post "This is a weird book about weird people doing weird things, and I wouldn't have put it down if the house were on fire." -- Washington Times "Whether Gerald Foos is telling the complete truth is almost beside the point. The Voyeur is so fascinating a character--insightful, observant and amoral--that the reader becomes caught up in his story." -- Providence Journal "If you've ever wanted your inner voyeur to run free, vicariously at least, then The Voyeur's Motel is for you . . . Motel delves deeply into the taboo world with no holds barred and no excuses . . . The type of unflinching New Journalism that Talese helped found three decades ago." -- Jackson Clarion Ledger "Pioneering reporter Gay Talese tells the ultimate surveillance story in The Voyeur's Motel . . . Talese--a master of elegant, understated prose--uses an objective reportorial style to tell the voyeur's story, and it's the right approach for a narrative that requires no extra spice . . . An unforgettable book." -- BookPage "Foos [is revealed] as a singularly pervy, grandiose, and strangely eloquent weirdo who would be irresistible to any writer, let alone one as talented, patient, and thoughtful as Talese . . . Those seeking a uniquely discomfiting journey couldn't find a better pair of reprobates with whom to cast their lot." -- Booklist "Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American life." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] truly shocking story . . . Not your typical beach book, perhaps, but you may want to read this compulsive page-turner--which raises all sorts of fascinating journalistic, moral and legal issues--under cover of an umbrella." -- Barnes & Noble Review "A provocative and compelling story." -- Midwest Book Review "An unsettling read . . . Foos's notes offer a long-term glimpse into the sex lives of Americans." -- Maclean's (Canada) " The Voyeur's Motel . . . had me hooked . . . It's an unsettling book, like being trapped in a hall of mirrors. The reader observes Talese observing Foos observing his guests. It might make you lose your bearings, but at the same time it's completely mesmerising, and often darkly funny, too." -- Daily Mail (UK) (Event Critics' Best Books of the Year) "[An] eye-popping book . . . Completely riveting from start to finish . . . Darkly comical . . . It is by turns fascinating and illuminating, very creepy and very funny, and will live in my memory long after many more doggedly accurate works have vanished into thin air." -- Mail on Sunday (UK) "A riveting page-turner . . . Short and brisk, it tells a compellingly sordid story, and Foos is one fascinating dude . . . The book is compulsively readable." -- Winnipeg Free Press, Praise for The Voyeur's Motel : "This book flipped nearly all of my switches as a reader. It's a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer . . . Gripping . . . [Talese] lays out what he knows and does not know in sentences that are as crisp as good Windsor knots. He expresses his qualms, but trusts the reader to come to his or her own conclusions . . . An intense book." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Informative and intriguing . . . [I] was enlightened and entertained by The Voyeur's Motel ." -- Washington Post "Talese writes with his usual elegance." -- New York Times Book Review "Pioneering reporter Gay Talese tells the ultimate surveillance story in The Voyeur's Motel . . . Talese--a master of elegant, understated prose--uses an objective reportorial style to tell the voyeur's story, and it's the right approach for a narrative that requires no extra spice . . . An unforgettable book." -- BookPage "Foos [is revealed] as a singularly pervy, grandiose, and strangely eloquent weirdo who would be irresistible to any writer, let alone one as talented, patient, and thoughtful as Talese . . . Those seeking a uniquely discomfiting journey couldn't find a better pair of reprobates with whom to cast their lot." -- Booklist "Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American life." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] revealing case study . . . 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 . . . and insights into the psychology behind the physicality . . . The dirty laundry here has some interesting stains." -- Publishers Weekly "[A] truly shocking story . . . Not your typical beach book, perhaps, but you may want to read this compulsive page-turner--which raises all sorts of fascinating journalistic, moral and legal issues--under cover of an umbrella." -- Barnes & Noble Review "An unsettling read . . . Foos's notes offer a long-term glimpse into the sex lives of Americans." -- Maclean's (Canada) "A weird, fascinating and thoroughly uncomfortable story built from layers of complicity . . . Creepily fascinating reading." -- Financial Times (UK) "A riveting page-turner . . . Short and brisk, it tells a compellingly sordid story, and Foos is one fascinating dude . . . The book is compulsively readable." -- Winnipeg Free Press, Advance Praise for The Voyeur's Motel : "Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American life." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] truly shocking story . . . Not your typical beach book, perhaps, but you may want to read this compulsive page-turner--which raises all sorts of fascinating journalistic, moral and legal issues--under cover of an umbrella." -- Barnes & Noble Review Praise for Gay Talese: "The most important nonfiction writer of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters." --David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian "He is a reporter, true enough, but one with the eyes and ears of an artist." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Talese . . . as he has proven again and again with his books, is a master of the narrative art." --William Kennedy, author of Ironweed and Roscoe "Talese's . . . prose [is] distinctive for its precision, its silkiness, its attention to important details that lesser journalists routinely overlooked." --Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta "In a culture of success and celebrity, Gay Talese has always found his best subjects in failure and decline: Joe DiMaggio in his lonely eclipse; Joshua Logan in the midst of terrible depressions; Floyd Patterson struggling to express what it is to be knocked flat in front of a filled stadium. Talese's lapidary style and impeccable reporting standards have endured far better than the work of some of his more histrionic New Journalism contemporaries." -- New Yorker, Advance Praise for The Voyeur's Motel : "This book flipped nearly all of my switches as a reader. It's a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer . . . Gripping . . . [Talese] lays out what he knows and does not know in sentences that are as crisp as good Windsor knots. He expresses his qualms, but trusts the reader to come to his or her own conclusions . . . An intense book." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American life." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] revealing case study . . . 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 . . . and insights into the psychology behind the physicality . . . The dirty laundry here has some interesting stains." -- Publishers Weekly "[A] truly shocking story . . . Not your typical beach book, perhaps, but you may want to read this compulsive page-turner--which raises all sorts of fascinating journalistic, moral and legal issues--under cover of an umbrella." -- Barnes & Noble Review "An unsettling read . . . Foos's notes offer a long-term glimpse into the sex lives of Americans." -- Maclean's (Canada) Praise for Gay Talese: "The most important nonfiction writer of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters." --David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian "He is a reporter, true enough, but one with the eyes and ears of an artist." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Talese . . . as he has proven again and again with his books, is a master of the narrative art." --William Kennedy, author of Ironweed and Roscoe "Talese's . . . prose [is] distinctive for its precision, its silkiness, its attention to important details that lesser journalists routinely overlooked." --Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta "In a culture of success and celebrity, Gay Talese has always found his best subjects in failure and decline: Joe DiMaggio in his lonely eclipse; Joshua Logan in the midst of terrible depressions; Floyd Patterson struggling to express what it is to be knocked flat in front of a filled stadium. Talese's lapidary style and impeccable reporting standards have endured far better than the work of some of his more histrionic New Journalism contemporaries." -- New Yorker, Praise for The Voyeur's Motel : "This book flipped nearly all of my switches as a reader. It's a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer . . . Gripping . . . [Talese] lays out what he knows and does not know in sentences that are as crisp as good Windsor knots. He expresses his qualms, but trusts the reader to come to his or her own conclusions . . . An intense book." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Informative and intriguing . . . [I] was enlightened and entertained by The Voyeur's Motel ." -- Washington Post "Talese writes with his usual elegance." -- New York Times Book Review "Whether Gerald Foos is telling the complete truth is almost beside the point. The Voyeur is so fascinating a character--insightful, observant and amoral--that the reader becomes caught up in his story." -- Providence Journal "Pioneering reporter Gay Talese tells the ultimate surveillance story in The Voyeur's Motel . . . Talese--a master of elegant, understated prose--uses an objective reportorial style to tell the voyeur's story, and it's the right approach for a narrative that requires no extra spice . . . An unforgettable book." -- BookPage "Foos [is revealed] as a singularly pervy, grandiose, and strangely eloquent weirdo who would be irresistible to any writer, let alone one as talented, patient, and thoughtful as Talese . . . Those seeking a uniquely discomfiting journey couldn't find a better pair of reprobates with whom to cast their lot." -- Booklist "Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American life." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] revealing case study . . . 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 . . . and insights into the psychology behind the physicality . . . The dirty laundry here has some interesting stains." -- Publishers Weekly "[A] truly shocking story . . . Not your typical beach book, perhaps, but you may want to read this compulsive page-turner--which raises all sorts of fascinating journalistic, moral and legal issues--under cover of an umbrella." -- Barnes & Noble Review "An unsettling read . . . Foos's notes offer a long-term glimpse into the sex lives of Americans." -- Maclean's (Canada) "A weird, fascinating and thoroughly uncomfortable story built from layers of complicity . . . Creepily fascinating reading." -- Financial Times (UK) "A riveting page-turner . . . Short and brisk, it tells a compellingly sordid story, and Foos is one fascinating dude . . . The book is compulsively readable." -- Winnipeg Free Press, Praise for Gay Talese: "The most important nonfiction writer of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters." --David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian "He is a reporter, true enough, but one with the eyes and ears of an artist." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Talese . . . as he has proven again and again with his books, is a master of the narrative art." --William Kennedy, author of Ironweed and Roscoe "Talese's . . . prose [is] distinctive for its precision, its silkiness, its attention to important details that lesser journalists routinely overlooked." --Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta "In a culture of success and celebrity, Gay Talese has always found his best subjects in failure and decline: Joe DiMaggio in his lonely eclipse; Joshua Logan in the midst of terrible depressions; Floyd Patterson struggling to express what it is to be knocked flat in front of a filled stadium. Talese's lapidary style and impeccable reporting standards have endured far better than the work of some of his more histrionic New Journalism contemporaries." -- New Yorker
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
306.770973
Synopsis
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller 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 tell 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 record 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 thirty-five years, he's ready to go public and Talese can finally tell his story. The Voyeur's Motel is an extraordinary work of narrative journalism, and one of the most talked about books of the year.
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