Armistead Maupin: Tales Of The City, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Tales Of The City
- Publisher:
- Transworld Publ. Ltd UK, 03/2024
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781804994252
- Item number:
- 11640483
- Volume:
- 336 Pages
- Weight:
- 200 g
- Format:
- 198 x 127 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 7.3.2024
- Series:
- Tales of the City - volume 1
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Tales Of The City |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 11.95* |
Blurb
The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga, is an uproariously moving novel and an indelible portrait of cultural change from the seventies. Named as one of the BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Novels, a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick and Britain's favourite gay / lesbian novel from The Big Gay Read
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Originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s*,* Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.
Among the cast of this ground-breaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
Biography
Armistead Maupin, geboren 1944 in Washington, studierte Literatur an der University of North Carolina und arbeitete als Reporter für eine Nachrichtenagentur. Er schrieb für Andy Warhols Zeitschrift "Interview", die "New York Times" und die "Los Angeles Times". Seine Geschichten aus San Francisco, die berühmten "Tales of the City", verfasste er über fast zwei Jahrzehnte als täglichen Fortsetzungsroman für den 2San Francisco Chronicle". Maupin lebt in San Francisco.
