The Voyeur's Motel took my breath away. It captures the changing mores of a century, from an idyllic rural America to inexplicable mass murder at a mall. This is a brilliant, exhilarating, and haunting book. -- Frank Rich The best non-fiction writer in America. -- Mario Puzo 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 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 The most important non-fiction 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 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 NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE