Book Review

Unto the Sons (1992)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Writer: Gay Talese; Genres: Biography, Memoir; Publisher: Knopf

Unto the Sons is a sprawling, convoluted, fanatically detailed, near-epic saga of four generations of Gay Talese's family in Italy and the U.S. An extraordinarily likable, if extraordinarily wordy, book. A-

Originally posted Mar 26, 1993 Published in issue #163 Mar 26, 1993 Order article reprints
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