Armistead Maupin Books

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". .

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

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.

Set against the vibrant backdrop of San Francisco, this narrative explores the lives of a diverse group of characters navigating love, identity, and community. Through their interconnected stories, themes of acceptance and the search for belonging are vividly portrayed. The book captures the essence of the city’s unique culture and the complexities of human relationships, making it a poignant reflection on life in a changing urban landscape. It serves as a rich source of inspiration for the acclaimed Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City.

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.

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.

In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles -- from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs and human ignorance.

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.

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed a singular trail through popular culture -- from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a wry comedy of manners and a deeply involving portrait of a vanished era.

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

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.

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.

As Noone's friendship grows with a dying boy, he feels he can unlock his innermost feelings. But troubling questions arise, and he is forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic.

A CLASSIC OF LGBTQ LITERATURE THAT HAS BECOME A CULTSENSATION! San Francisco, late 1970s. At 28 BarbaryLane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She welcomes people who have nowhereelse to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness andher superb marijuana crop. Enter Mary Ann Singleton, a prudish, naïve,young woman who escaped her dull Ohio hometown for San Francisco. She settles inwith her other fellow tenants: Michael "Mouse," a personable younggay man, Brian Hawkins, an incorrigible Don Juan, and Mona Ramsey, a younghippyish bisexual. Little does the group know that they will soonform a dear family together. This is the beginning of a humorous, heartfeltsaga, between the summer of love and the appearance of AIDS, in the city ofsexual freedom! THE HEROES OF THISENCHANTING GROUP HAVE BEEN ENJOYED BY MILLIONS OF READERS WORLDWIDE! The novelshave been translated into 10 languages and sold over 6 million copies. The titlehas been adapted on TV (BBC), Limited Series (Netflix), Theater...and now ingraphic novel form for the first time.

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.

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.

Gabriel Noone è un romanziere di successo che conduce da anni un programma radiofonico notturno. È in un momento di crisi creativa ed è stato abbandonato dall'uomo con cui viveva da anni. Un amico gli manda il memoriale di un tredicenne, Pete Lomax, che racconta le violenze subite in famiglia e la sua condizione di malato di Aids. Gabriel comincia a trascorrere ore al telefono con il ragazzo, fino a considerarlo una sorta di figlio. Ma quando Gabriel deciderà di andare a conoscere il giovane, la sua vita ordinata e le sue certezze verranno messe completamente in gioco, fino a dubitare dell'esistenza stessa di Pete.

6bändiger Romanzyklus über das durch ständig wechselnde Beziehungen geprägte Leben junger Leute in San Francisco

Im zweiten Band der Stadtgeschichten haben alte und neue Fans von Armistead Maupin Gelegenheit, sich bei der Begegnung der Sekretärin Mary Ann Singleton mit dem teuflischen Kult zu gruseln (und zwischendurch heftig zu kichern), sich mit Michael "Mouse" Tolliver Sorgen darüber zu machen, ob seine Hoffnungen auf eine glückliche Zukunft mit Jon, dem Gynäkologen, berechtigt sind; das bisher geheime Anagramm im Namen der Vermieterin Anna Madrigal zu entschlüsseln und über Dutzende irrwitziger Mißgeschicke, die den Leuten in San Francisco widerfahren, zu lachen oder zu weinen.

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