Public Love

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999. Pictorial boards, 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 20 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Ever made it in the back of a cab? Or under a blanket in a park? In an elevator? If not, you ve missed out because a lot of people have, and these 44 stories prove it. Shocking, bold, fun Public Love is impossible to put down. Each first-person confessional describes the how, when, and where of a public sex act. (You can almost hear the giggles and the sound of buttons popping.) The stories are paired with grainy color photos of the lusty locales be it a doorway, a truck stop, or, yes, the middle of Fifth Avenue. Designed in the best-selling spirit of Taxi Driver Wisdom, its look is cool and slightly seedy like the shadowy underworld of passion on the fly. Voyeuristic and sexy, the absolutely true tales in Public Love offer a sophisticated twist on a timeless subject. Prepare to blush, chuckle, and wonder if you should be having more fun. Carpe diem! / Talmage Cooley quit a career as a bond trader on Wall Street to become a writer, director, and photographer. He lives in New York." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong. Collectible.