Armistead Maupin è celebrato per il suo innovativo romanzo serializzato, "Tales of the City", che ha affascinato per la prima volta i lettori nel San Francisco Chronicle. Le sue narrazioni approfondiscono l'intricato arazzo delle relazioni umane e le diverse vite dei personaggi che navigano in contesti contemporanei. La voce distintiva di Maupin fonde calore, arguzia e una profonda intuizione sulla condizione umana. Crea magistralmente personaggi con un profondo senso di empatia e autenticità, guadagnandosi un devoto seguito di lettori.
San Francisco 1976. La provinciale Mary Ann Singleton, che ha lasciato la famiglia e una vita noiosa per trasferirsi nella città più vitale e gaudente d'America, trova casa nel condominio al numero 28 di Barbary Lane. Qui, sotto l'ala protettiva della signora Madrigal, infaticabile padrona di casa e coltivatrice di marijuana in cortile, vive, si agita fra jet set e bassifondi, infrange le barriere sociali e sessuali, ama, si strugge e fa di tutto per godersi la vita.
Gabriel Noone è un romanziere di successo che conduce da anni un programmaradiofonico notturno. È in un momento di crisi creativa ed è statoabbandonato dall'uomo con cui viveva da anni. Un amico gli manda il memorialedi un tredicenne, Pete Lomax, che racconta le violenze subite in famiglia e lasua condizione di malato di Aids. Gabriel comincia a trascorrere ore altelefono con il ragazzo, fino a considerarlo una sorta di figlio. Ma quandoGabriel deciderà di andare a conoscere il giovane, la sua vita ordinatae le sue certezze verranno messe completamente in gioco, fino a dubitaredell'esistenza stessa di Pete.
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels—collected in this second omnibus volume—offer an incomparable blend of storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the early 2000s. Tearing through these tales allows for instant gratification and showcases Maupin's masterful construction of a vibrant world. His uproarious and moving narratives have carved a unique niche in American literature, serving as indelible documents of cultural change during this period.
Back to Barbary Lane comprises the second omnibus of the series, featuring Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989). This volume continues the saga of the tenants of Mrs. Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. While the first trilogy celebrated the carefree excesses of the seventies, this installment explores the challenges faced by its hapless, all-too-human cast during the tumultuous eighties—a decade marked by plague, deceit, and ambition.
Like its companion volumes, Back to Barbary Lane is noted for its sharp and engaging dialogue, which has been praised as some of the most memorable in literature. Maupin’s work has garnered critical acclaim globally and captivated legions of devoted fans.
A collection of the first three novels of the "Tales of the City" saga which chronicles the high and low life in San Francisco. He has written six volumes of "Tales of the City". .
Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving novels have carved a unique niche in American literature, capturing cultural change from the seventies through the early 2000s. These tales are as hard to resist as a dish of pistachios, enticing readers to play the game of "Just one more chapter," often leading to late nights. Originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first three installments introduced a mainstream audience to a diverse cast of characters navigating urban life. Among them are the bewildered Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins, the free-spirited Mona Ramsey, the hopeful Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal. Maupin skillfully weaves their stories, tackling social and sexual barriers while guiding them through heartbreak, triumph, terrors, and coincidences. The result is a sparkling and addictive comedy of manners that continues to enchant new generations of readers.
Master storyteller Armistead Maupin - the man who defined the difference
between 'a biological family' and 'a logical family,' who is both gifted with
fearless art and the ability to speak for millions - finally tells his own
story. Logical Family is a sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural
explosion of a man Caitlin Moran
New York writer Desmond Sullivan doesn't believe in marriage. His five happy years with his lover Russell haven't fundamentally challenged Desmond's conviction that, at best, true love is "an acute form of tolerance." He's sexually restless, and looking forward to his four-month teaching stint in Boston as an attempt to regain some of his own identity and try to complete the biography he's been writing. Jane Cody, a Boston public television producer, is similarly disenchanted with her marriage to a clumsy, kindly professor of English. Lately, Jane has been meeting her ex-husband Dale for drinks and coffee, although she's well aware that he's a jerk. With so much going wrong in her life, it strikes Jane that she and Desmond could collaborate on a series of documentaries, salvaging both of their foundering work lives.
The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic sequel to Tales of the City and More Tales of the City. DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement storeroom, and Armistead Maupin is in firm control.
The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelganger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favorite gynecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all--without ever leaving home.
8 hrs and 37 mins The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis. Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world’s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin’s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring of mail-order brides. Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of manners for our times.
The bestselling author of the Tales of the City series presents a hilarious romp behind the scenes of tinseltown with a lovable 31" dwarf, who schemes to break out of her dwarf image and prove to Hollywood and the world that her singing talents and acting abilities are star quality.
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga. The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching novel, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters?Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane?as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past. Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of "leaving like a lady," Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her "logical family" in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades. Some members of Anna's family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada's Black Rock Desert where 60,000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. Anna herself has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to unfinished business she has long avoided
A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from Armistead Maupin.
After suffering personal calamities in New York, Mary Ann Singleton moves back to San Francisco after being gone for twenty years and begins to slowly rebuild her life, only to confront fresh terrors when her past comes back to haunt her.
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers—for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary... and filled with the everyday miracles of living.
The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga. ____________________ When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa--allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfil his wildest dreams--she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, a romantic country manor in the UK. Now, with her adopted son, Wilfred, Mona has opened Easley's doors to paying guests to keep her inherited English manor afloat. As they welcome a married American couple to Easley, Mona and Wilfred discover their new guests' terrible secret. Instead of focussing on the imminent arrival of old friend Michael Tolliver and matriarch Anna Madrigal, Mona will need to use her considerable charm, willpower and wiles to set things right before Easley's historic Midsummer ceremony. Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco and beyond. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
Au début des années quatre-vingt, l'Amérique sous Reagan oscille entre conservatisme et innovation technologique. Les Yuppies, obsédés par le travail, et les gays californiens, en première ligne pour faire évoluer les mentalités, se confrontent à l'impact grandissant du sida. C'est dans ce contexte que la reine Elisabeth II effectue sa première visite à San Francisco, symbolisant la vieille Europe et ses traditions, en décalage avec les avant-gardistes californiens. Ce contraste kitsch séduit ces derniers, tout comme la figure de Mme Madrigal, la logeuse excentrique de Barbary Lane, qui incarne une grand-mère engagée, cultivant des plantes dans son jardin tout en ayant un passé d'homme. On y croise Brian, aspirant à une vie de famille, sa femme Mary Ann, journaliste jonglant entre vie professionnelle et sentiments, et Michael, endeuillé par la perte de son amour à cause du sida. À travers l'humour et la fantaisie, l'auteur offre une vision romanesque qui préserve ses personnages d'un drame inévitable. Ses chroniques capturent une époque, souvent idéalisée, tout en célébrant l'amour et la solidarité.
Wie alles begann - die legendären Vorgeschichten zur „Serie der Stunde“ (Spiegel online) auf Netflix.
„Einmal begonnen, lassen einen die Geschichten aus San Francisco nicht mehr los." (NDR)
Dies ist der erste Band von Armistead Maupins legendären Stadtgeschichten. Wie bei einer Fahrt auf der Achterbahn jagt Maupin seine Leser in rasantem Tempo durch die Straßen von San Francisco. All den unterschiedlichsten Menschen, deren Geschichte erzählt wird, ist eines gemeinsam: Sie suchen das ganz große Glück.
„Die Wärme, die von der Geschichte um den verrückten Clan aus der Barbary Lane 28 ausgeht, erreicht Leser aller Geschlechter und sexuellen Orientierungen.“ (The New York Times)
Im Mittelpunkt des neunten und letzten Bandes der «Stadtgeschichten» steht Anna Madrigal, die legendäre Transgender-Dame und Hausherrin der Barbary Lane 28. Madrigal ist zweiundneunzig Jahre alt und wünscht sich nichts mehr als einen ladyliken Abgang. Mit ihrem früheren Mieter Brian fährt sie nach Winnemucca, wo Madrigal mit sechzehn Jahren aus dem Puff, der ihr Zuhause war, weggelaufen ist. Auf dieser Reise bringt sie Geheimnisse ans Licht und stellt sich lange verdrängten Konflikten. «Die Tage der Anna Madrigal» ist spannend, lustig, berührend und ein würdiger Abschluss einer traditionsreichen Serie. «Wunderbar … Genauso fesselnd zu lesen und liebenswert wie alle bisherigen Romane.» Booklist
