Gay Talese

May, 1980

Gay TaleseShe was completely nude, lying on her stomach in the desert sand, her legs spread wide, her long hair flowing in the wind, her head lilted back with her eyes closed. She seemed lost in private thoughts, remote from the world, reclining on this wind-swept dune in California near the Mexican border, adorned by nothing but her natural beauty.Thus begins Gay Talese's epic book "Thy Neighbor's Wife." Scheduled for publication by Doubleday this month, it has already been sold to Un...