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28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibusby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060164662 (0-06-016466-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: '28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus'Book summary:"These novels are as difficult to put down as a dish of pistachios. The reader starts playing the old childhood game of 'Just one more chapter and I'll turn out the lights,' only to look up and discover it's after midnight."
-- Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewArmistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels--the first three of which are collected in the is omnibus edition--have earned a unique niche in American literature, not only as matchless entertainment, but as indelible documents of cultural change in the seventies and eighties.
When originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City (1978), More Tales of the City (1980) and Futher Tales of the City (1982) 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 groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brain 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 mail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
With a foreword by the author. [via]
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Babycakesby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924837 (0-06-092483-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babycakes'Book summary:"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."
--New York Times Book ReviewWhen an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
[via]"Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh."
--Ian McKellen"Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop."
--Denver Post"Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on."
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Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibusby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060166495 (0-06-016649-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibus'Book summary:"An old fashioned pleasure... there's been nothing like it since the heyday of the serial novel 100 years ago... Tearing through [the tales] one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification; it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run."
--Walter Kendrick, Village Voice Literary SupplementBy turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City series stands as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary. These six classic comedies, some of which originally appeared as serials in San Francisco newspapers, have won Maupin critical acclaim around the world and enthralled legions of devoted fans.
Back to Barbary Lane comprises the second trilogy of the series--Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989) -- concluding 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-to-human cast across a decade troubled by plague, deceit and overweening ambition.
Like its companion volume, 28 Barbary Lane, Back to Barbary Lane is distinguished by what The Guardian of London has called "some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read." It promises hours of literate entertainment for readers old and new.
With a foreword by the author. [via]
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The Complete Tales of the Cityby Armistead MaupinISBN 006092098X (0-06-092098-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Further Tales of the Cityby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924926 (0-06-092492-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Further Tales of the City'Book summary:The calamity-prone residents of 28 barbary lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While anna madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, michael tolliver looks for love at the national gay rodeo, dede halcyon day and mary ann singleton track a charismatic psychopath across alaska, and society columnist prue giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in san francisco park [via]
Maupin Boxed Setby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060163437 (0-06-016343-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Maybe the Moonby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924349 (0-06-092434-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maybe the Moon'Book summary:Thirty-two inches tall, the acid-tongued actress Cadence Roth survives in Hollywood doing ""infomercials"" and B-grade horror flicks. By the author of Tales of the City. 60,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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- Maybe the Moon: A Novel: ISBN 0060924497 (0-06-092449-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Maybe the Moon: ISBN 0060165529 (0-06-016552-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Maybe the Moon: ISBN 0060169478 (0-06-016947-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Maybe the Moon: ISBN 0060924349 (0-06-092434-9)
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- Maybe the Moon: A Novel: ISBN 0060924497 (0-06-092449-7)
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Michael Tolliver Livesby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060761369 (0-06-076136-9)
Softcover, Perennial
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More Tales of the Cityby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060907266 (0-06-090726-6)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Tales of the City'Book summary:The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures for afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppleganger in a desert whore-house, and Michael Tolliver bumps into a certain gynecologist in a seedy Mexican Bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all'without ever leaving home. A new, full color 16-page insert makes this seamless work complete.
"Maupin has always been a humane storyteller, and an accessible one. His life-is-good-but-sloppy soap operas are marked by solid craft, superb dialogue, and what used to be called heart."
--Entertainment Weekly"Maupin writes with warmth, acuity and tremendous wit about ordinary people learning to live with themselves and one another. Read him."
--Harpers & Queen"Sparkling entertainments...lit by a glowing humanity that brings each character to vivid, poignant life."
--Publishers WeeklyDon't miss the much anticipated continuation of the classic miniseries "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City" premiering June 1998 and airing all summer on SHOWTIME. Check your local listings for times.
Visit the Tales of the City website at www.talesofthecity.com [via]
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The Night Listenerby Armistead MaupinISBN 006017143X (0-06-017143-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Significant Othersby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924810 (0-06-092481-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Significant Others'Book summary:The fifth novel in the "Tales of the city" sequence, which chronicles high, low and louche life in San Francisco and looks at the perplexing consequences of the AIDS epidemic. Maupin aims to portray the trials of modern love and lust and demystify the gay way of life, with sensitivity and humour. He lives in San Francisco and his novels were originally serialized in the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the "San Francisco Examiner". The four previous books in this sequence are available as Corgi paperback originals. [via]
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Sure of Youby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924845 (0-06-092484-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sure of You'Book summary: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.
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Tales of the Cityby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060186690 (0-06-018669-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of the City'Book summary: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. [via]
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