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.
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". .
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, the final three novels of Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City series are collected in this omnibus edition, showcasing a remarkable blend of storytelling and social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the early 2000s. These concluding tales of San Francisco's diverse characters, both gay and straight, are deeply moving. Maupin illustrates the progress of America and his pioneering characters, with writing that remains addictive yet increasingly profound. Spanning from 1978 to 2014, the series captures the decade before the AIDS crisis through the era of marriage equality, featuring unforgettable characters whose varied sexual identities have shaped the ongoing sexual revolution. Goodbye Barbary Lane includes Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, and The Days of Anna Madrigal, offering closure to beloved characters and their legacies. This omnibus joins two previous volumes, 28 Barbary Lane and Back to Barbary Lane, highlighting Maupin's skillful dialogue, his ability to create relatable yet unique characters, and his talent for intricate, if sometimes fantastical, plotting.
Continuing the saga of the tenants, past and present, of Mrs. Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. While the first trilogy celebrated the carefree excesses of the seventies, this volume tracks its hapless, all-too-human cast across the eighties--a decade troubled by plague, deceit, and overweening ambition
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
A hilarious and touching new installment of Armistead Maupin's beloved Tales of the City seriesTwenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband.Mary Ann finds temporary refuge in the couple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of fifty-seven, she licks her wounds and takes stock of her mistakes. Soon, with the help of Facebook and a few old friends, she begins to reengage with life, only to confront fresh terrors when her checkered past comes back to haunt her in a way she could never have imagined.After the intimate first-person narrative of Maupin's last novel, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn marks the author's return to the multicharacter plotlines and darkly comic themes of his earlier work. Among those caught in Mary Ann's orbit are her estranged daughter, Shawna, a popular sex blogger; Jake Greenleaf, Michael's transgendered gardening assistant; socialite DeDe Halcyon-Wilson; and the indefatigable Anna Madrigal, Mary Ann's former landlady at 28 Barbary Lane.More than three decades in the making, Armistead Maupin's legendary Tales of the City series rolls into a new age, still sassy, irreverent, and curious, and still exploring the boundaries of the human experience with insight, compassion, and mordant wit.
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.
In this darkly humorous novel set in magical San Francisco, the quirky residents of 28 Barbary Lane navigate romance and betrayal. From Anna Madrigal's shocking secrets to Michael Tolliver's quest for love, the intertwining lives reveal a vibrant tapestry of chaos and charm. Maupin's writing masterfully blends contrasting worlds.
