Anywhere: tales of the city maupin (Keywords)

The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchor-woman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic...

The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cosy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgñger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favourite gynaecologist in a Mexican bar. Mean...

A young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, and outrageous.

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.

The residents of Barbary Lane are back in this sequel to 'Tales of the City'. DeDe Halcyon and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, and the landlady imprisons a TV anchorwoman in her basement.

The characters created in Tales of the City reappear in this sequel. Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, and Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse.

A young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a new world of laundromat Lotharios, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, and outrageous.

Set in 1976 in San Francisco, 'Tales of the City' is the first of a sequence of novels about the unconventional tenants of 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of the eccentric, marijuana-growing landlady Anna Madrigal.

San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous -...

Mary Ann Singleton returns to San Francisco a very different person from when she left. Her career has faded away, her husband has run off with her own life coach and she faces invasive surgery for cancer. In such circumstances, there is only one person and one city she can turn to: Michael 'Mo...

Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels have earned a unique niche in American literature; not only as matchless entertainment, but as indelible documents of cultural change in the seventies and eightiesAmong the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the...

The first of nine 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.

The characters created in Tales of the City reappear in this sequel. Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, and Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse.

A young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, and outrageous.

Set against the 1970s San Fransisco skyline, Maupin's Tales of the City introduces the unconventional tenants of 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of the eccentric, marijuana-growing landlady Anna Madrigal. Mary Ann Singleton, a naive young woman newly-arrived from Cleveland, Ohio, ...

'The Days of Anna Madrigal', the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling 'Tales of the City' series, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters - Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 B...

Mary Ann Singleton returns to San Francisco a very different person from when she left. Her career has faded away, her husband has run off with her own life coach and she faces invasive surgery for cancer. In such circumstances, there is only one person and one city she can turn to: Michael 'Mo...

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 ...

Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael Tolliver has learned to embrace the sacred dailiness of life, the loving connections that sustain him in the hardest of times. This journey takes him from the garden of a troublesome client, to the...

A holiday in the redwoods goes awry when the opposing sexes camp out rather too close to each other for comfort. Among those caught up in the mayhem are DeDe Halcyon, reformed debutante, and troubled house-husband Brian Hawkins.