Tales of the city

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Maupin, Armistead
 
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This internationally beloved modern classic, first published in 1978, will be reissued with a tie-in cover to coincide with the groundbreaking three-part PBS miniseries scheduled to air January 10, 11, and 12, 1994--a joint presentation of the prestigious American Playhouse and KQED San Francisco.
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"Remarkable. . . delectable, addictive." —New York Times Book Review

The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's bestselling San Francisco saga.

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

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Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City

The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.

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

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"A quietly understated masterpiece." —USA Today

The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's bestselling San Francisco saga.

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

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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, lives on in this novel about growing older joyfully. Almost twenty years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, author Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his own story. Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life,...

8.  Mary Ann in autumn: a tales of the city novel

 
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Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
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"The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey–now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds–and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--