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Unto The Sons

UNTO THE SONS is Gay Talese's stirring epic of his family's exodus from a tiny village in southern Italy, caught up in the tide of young men who crossed the Atlantic to America at the end of the 19th century.

Gay Talese joined the staff of <i>The New York Times </i>in 1955, and remained there for a decade. During the 1960s and 1970s he contributed many articles to magazines, principally <i>Esquire.</i> He is the author of seven previous books, and has been at work on UNTO THE SONS since the spring of 1981, when he travelled to Italy to begin his research. He was born in Ocean City, New Jersey, in 1932, and now lives in New York City and Ocean City with his wife and their daughters.

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