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Series
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English
Description
"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 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'."
3) Babycakes
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 4
Language
English
Description
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbor, and an international ring of mail-order brides.
Author
Series
Tales of the City volume 3
Language
English
Description
The lovelorn residents of a San Francisco apartment house are shown loving, living, and living it up as late 20th century urban life is depicted.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 5
Language
English
Description
The fifth book in the Tales of the city series. 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 philanderer, and the world's most beautiful fat woman.--Back cover of paperback edition.
"It is now 1985 and much of the action is set in the Russian River area...
6) Sure of you
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 6
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
©1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary Ann, a TV show host, 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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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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,...
Author
Series
Tales of the city series) volume 9
Language
English
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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"--
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