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Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.)

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For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own 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 sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.


Since 1976, Maupin's Tales of the City has etched itself upon the hearts and minds of its readers, both straight and gay. From a groundbreaking newspaper serial in the San Francisco Chronicle to a bestselling novel to a critically acclaimed PBS series, Tales (all six of them) contains the universe--if not in a grain of sand, then in one apartment house.
Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel (P.S.)

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Twenty 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.

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.


Michael Tolliver Lives (P.S.)

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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.


Significant Others (Tales of the City, Book 5)

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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.


More Tales of the City

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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 doppelgÄnger 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.


Michael Tolliver Lives LP (Distribution)

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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contem-porary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his ground-breaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the fifty-five-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 Lives follows 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.

Though this is a stand-alone novel—accessible to fans of Tales of the City and new readers alike—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 Lives is a novel about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.


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A Show, a Discussion, and a Q&A with Armistead Maupin - San Francisco Bay Times
A Show, a Discussion, and a Q&A with Armistead Maupin - San Francisco Bay Times San Francisco Bay TimesA Show, a Discussion, and a Q&A with Armistead MaupinIt was a warm evening and the auditorium was stuffy, but the audience stayed throughout the three hour three-part play presentation and to witness the discussion between Armistead Maupin and John Fisher, a Q&A, and a reception that featured Maupin's

Three On A Party – Tennessee and Stein “Oh My!”; Spamalot ... - Beyond Chron
Three On A Party – Tennessee and Stein “Oh My!”; Spamalot ... - Beyond Chron Beyond ChronThree On A Party – Tennessee and Stein “Oh My!”; Spamalot The Armistead Maupin play is last. It has some fun moments in it – but after seeing the first two plays, it lacked luster. Maupin is a good writer and columnist – but for some reason his words did not work in his play. It takes place in San Francisco

Larkspur Flower and Food Festival - San Francisco Chronicle
Larkspur Flower and Food FestivalArmistead Maupin, state Sen. Mark Leno and others will speak at this benefit reception for a new documentary-in-progress about the National AIDS Memorial Grove. $100; sponsorships $250-$5000. 6 pm June 11. Marines' Memorial Hotel, 609 Sutter St.,

Stein, Williams and Maupin combine for 'Party' - San Francisco Chronicle
Stein, Williams and Maupin combine for 'Party'The guests of honor are Gertrude Stein, Tennessee Williams and Armistead Maupin. Each member of this unlikely trio will have short stories performed on the Rhino stage in an evening dubbed "Three on a Party." Stein's "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" from

Writers born this day: Armistead Maupin, Daphne du Maurier - The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
Writers born this day: Armistead Maupin, Daphne du Maurier - The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com The Post-Standard - Syracuse.comWriters born this day: Armistead Maupin, Daphne du MaurierHenny Ray Abrams/APWriter Armistead Maupin (left) and actress Toni Collette attend the New York premiere of the screen adaptation of Maupin's "The Night Listener" at the Museum of Modern Art in 2006. Quotable notable: I have always distrusted memoir.