- Moral conditions, Sex (Psychology), Sex customs, Sexual ethics
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.
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Earnest, grave, epic and meticulous.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Gay Talese
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 609
- Publisher
- Dell, Doubleday, Ivy Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440186892
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