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GAY TALE ON 'A WRER'S LIFE'
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Bgrafias2, 042 reviews728 followersReadFebary 5, 2009The disjoted feel of Gay Tale's "memoir" provok accatns of a "notebook dump" (Wall Street Journal), a sentiment all the more gallg when nsired agast his sterlg reputatn as a foundg voice of New Journalism. Gay Tale on 'A Wrer's Life'. Many cred the articl that Gay Tale wrote the 1960s as the begng of New Journalism.
Gay tale, among many other acplishments, wrote the most famo le magaz. “Frank Satra had a ld,” which appeared high Tale’s 1966 Esquire profile, munited stantly that the piece would pay no attentn to the nicetie [...] * gay talese a writer's life *
At the age of 74, the wrer has a new book out, lled Gay Tale: A Wrer's Life. Gay Tale now foc on his own life--the zeal for tth, the narrative edge, the sometim startlg precisn, that won aclas for his journalism, and bt-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books about The New York Tim, the Mafia, the sex dtry, and the Amerin immigrant experience. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT'A Wrer's Life, ' by Gay TaleA Reporter's ReporterApril 30, 2006It's hard to overstate Gay Tale's gold-standard reputatn.
" But "Unto the Sons" suggted he is pable of distillg drama and pathos om his own life: that book's extraordary fal scene, his Italian father, enraged after Allied bombers stroyed an ancient Italian abbey south of Rome, smash ltle Gay's balsa-wood mols of Army Air Force plan, wherpon the distrght boy ns out onto the street and falls through a bakery's plate-glass than a memoir, though, Tale had cid to wre a book "set wh the i of a rtrant. A half-dozen pag about the closeted gay manager of an Upper East Si club who died of AIDS, a dozen pag on the former headwaer at Elae's who qu to start his own rtrants. "Gay Tale remds me of another cultural star of his generatn who spends way too much time the zy bubble of the Upper East Si, walkg the same streets, talkg to the same people at the same plac night after night.
Gay Tale now foc on his own life--the zeal for the tth, the narrative edge, the sometim startlg precisn, that won aclas for his journalism and bt-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books about the New York Tim (The Kgdom and the Power), the Mafia (Honor Thy Father), the sex dtry (Thy Neighbor's Wife), and, focg on his own fay, the Amerin immigrant experience (Unto the Sons). More Books by Gay Tale. Gay Tale's Memoir A Wrer’s Life - New York Magaze Book Review - Nymag.
A Wrer's Life: by Tale, Gay - ISBN 10: 0739326163 - ISBN 13: 9780739326169 - Random Hoe Large Prt Publishg - 2006 - Hardver * gay talese a writer's life *
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