Tales Of The City (#1)

Author(s): Armistead Maupin

Gay & Bi Male Fiction

San Francisco, 1976. A naive 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 - unmistakably the handwork of Armistead Maupin.

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The first volume in the widely acclaimed and much-loved series

Originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle, this book - this series spans some five decades in the lives of a disparate group of residents of 28 Barbary Lane. Fresh and immediate, the books transport the reader to a city socially, politically, and sexually in flux, experiencing with Maupin's dazzling array of characters the highs and lows of their lives in the City. -- Adam (staff)

Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C. in 1944 but was brought up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in Vietnam before moving to California in 1971 as a reporter for the Associated Press. In 1976 he launched his daily newspaper serial, Tales of the City, in the San Francisco Chronicle. The first fiction to appear in an American daily for decades, Tales grew into an international sensation when compiled and rewritten as novels. Maupin's six-volume Tales of the City sequence - Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, and Sure of You - are now multi-million bestsellers published in eleven languages. The first three of these novels were adapted into widely acclaimed television mini-series. Maupin's 1992 novel, Maybe the Moon, chronicling the adventures of the world's shortest woman, was a number one bestseller. His novel The Night Listener was made into a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette in 2006. Armistead Maupin lives in San Francisco, California. For more information about Armistead Maupin and his work, please visit his official author website at: www.armisteadmaupin.com

General Fields

  • : 9780552998765
  • : Transworld Publishers Limited
  • : Transworld Publishers Limited
  • : 0.184
  • : October 2000
  • : 198mm X 128mm X 18mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 272
  • : 813.54
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Armistead Maupin