È il 7 gennaio del 1980 quando Gay Talese, all'epoca impegnato nell'imminente pubblicazione del suo bestseller La donna d'altri, riceve una lettera scritta a mano e anonima.
Reseñas: «Un documento de un valor incalculable.» Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Review of Books «Brillante... Indispensable.» Robert Kirsch, Los Ángeles Times
This informal book traces the evolution of literary nonfiction and reveals how Gay Talese writes in the genre. In addition, articles by such masters as John McPhee, Tom Wolfe, and Annie Dillard illustrate various writing techniques.
But because the letter-writer insisted on remaining anonymous, Talese filed his reporting away, certain the story would remain untold.
Thy Neighbor's Wife
UNTO THE SONS is Gay Talese's stirring epic of his family's exodus from a tiny village in southern Italy, caught up in the tide of young men who crossed the Atlantic to America at the end of the 19th century.
A fourteen-story gray Gothic building on 43rd Street in Manhattan houses the world's mightiest newspaper kingdom -- whose power is such that those who run it and work for it...
Creates a portrait of everyday life within the Mafia world by focusing on three generations of the Bonanno family.
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.