Fame and Obscurity

San Diego Union-Tribune
"Talese is a masterful writer, whose seamless, thought-provoking prose carries the reader as effortlessly as a gondolier in a Venice canal."

Philadelphia Inquirer
"Gay Talese chisels a lapidary sentence that is sharper than a serpent's tooth."

San Francisco Chronicle
"Talese has a cool understated style that inspires our confidence in its veracity, and possesses the ability to enter into his subjects' lives that make us see them from the inside the way a novelist does."

The Wall Street Journal
"Fascinating...Poignant."

The New York Times Book Review
"Talese not only knows the right questions to ask, but also the revealing reactions and byplays to observe."

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