Further Tales of the City - by Armistead Maupin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Published in somewhat different form in the San Francisco chronicle"--T.p. verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, <em>Tales of the City</em></strong></p><p><strong>The third novel in the beloved <em>Tales of the City</em> series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.</strong></p><p>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 a San Francisco park.</p><p><strong></strong> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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 a San Francisco park.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Armistead Maupin is a first rate-world-class novelist, creating characters so vivid, complicated, tender, and true as to seem utterly timeless. . . .I'm willing to bet that fifty years from now Maupin's work will be read for its detailed descriptions of late twentieth century America, its rollicking humor and kind heart, its Chekovian compassion, its Wildean wit, its intricate. . .sometimes unbelievablle but always utterly irresistible plotlines."--Stephen McCauley"I love Maupin's books for very much the same qualities that make me love the novels of Dickens."--Christopher Isherwood"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."--New York Times Book Review"What makes Maupin's writing so rich and humorous is the way he juxtaposes the goings-on of irreversibly different worlds, flirtatiously overlapping them at times."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hope."--Denver Post<br>
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