Questa serie ti invita nel cuore pulsante di San Francisco, seguendo le vite intrecciate di un cast eterogeneo di personaggi alla ricerca del proprio posto nel mondo. Ogni storia si sviluppa a un ritmo incalzante, rivelando i profondi desideri, le complesse relazioni e le svolte inaspettate che legano questi individui. Preparati per una narrazione ricca di umorismo, umanità e momenti toccanti che risuonano a lungo dopo la lettura. È un'esplorazione avvincente del senso di appartenenza e della ricerca della felicità in un dinamico paesaggio urbano.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classicTales of the Cityseries, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life, the tender alliances that sustain him in the hardest of times,Michael Tolliver Livesfollows its protagonist as he finds love with a younger man, attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida, and finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady. While Maupin insists that this book is not, strictly speaking, a continuation ofTales of the City,a reassuring number of familiar faces appear along the way. As usual, the author's mordant wit and ear for pitch-perfect dialogue serve every aspect of the story-- from the bawdy to the bittersweet.Michael Tolliver Livesis a novel about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.
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 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
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels-the final three of which are collected in this third omnibus volume-stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium. "These final days of his San Francisco friends and lovers, gay and straight, are seriously moving ... 'aupin deftly illustrates how far America and the pioneering Anna have come, and nearly forty years into the series, his writing remains wildly addictive but is deeper and richer."--People The last three novels of Armistead Maupin's bestselling, critically-acclaimed Tales of the City are now available for the first time as an omnibus edition. The epic series, published between 1978 and 2014, spans the decade before the AIDS crisis through the era of marriage equality following an unforgettable set of characters, whose diverse sexual identities helped set the social stage for the ongoing sexual revolution. Goodbye Barbary Lane-comprised of Michael Tolliver Lives (2007), Mary Ann in Autumn (2010), and The Days of Anna Madrigal (2014)-brings closure to the lives and legacies of the characters through which generations have found connection to America's larger cultural struggles over the past four decades. Joining two companion omnibus volumes, 28 Barbary Lane and Back to Barbary Lane, Goodbye Barbary Lane presents all of "Mr. Maupin's adeptness at fluid dialogue, his flair for shaping characters who thread the needle between pop archetypes and singular human beings, and his great gift for intricate if occasionally preposterous plotting"(New York Times)
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.
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
