Tales of the city
Author
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 1
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1989, 1978
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sequels: More tales of the city and Further tales of the city. A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat lotharios and cutthroat debutantes.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 3
Description
Sequel to: Tales of the city and More Tales of the city. Socialite DeDe Halcyon Day returns from Guyana to find a psychopath threatening her half-Chinese twins and a greedy press after the story.
4) Babycakes
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 4
Description
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.
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. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht....
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 5
Description
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. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin's cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
6) Sure of you
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 6
Description
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 of You could only come from Armistead Maupin.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 7
Description
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 volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
It had been 20 years since Mary Ann left her husband and child in San Francisco for a TV career in New York. Following some bad luck, she was back in San Francisco staying with an old friend. At 57, she's forced to take stock of her life and reengage. Her past comes back to haunt her in an unexpected way.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 10
Description
"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"--