Armistead Maupin
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man 'on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.' Realizing that the South was too small for him, this son of a traditional lawyer packed his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a beloved portrait of a Confederate ancestor) and took to the road in search of adventure. It was a...
3) Sure of you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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 1
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
All six Tales of the City novels available in one audio edition with a special introduction by the author 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 eighties Among the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring...
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 10
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa--allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams--she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, Teddy's grand, romantic country manor in the UK. She also didn't imagine that she'd need to open the manor's doors to paying guests to afford the electric bill and repair the leaking roof. Yet somehow she and her young friend Wilfred--whom...
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Double feature ; Blu-ray version ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The night listerner: a talk show host becomes captivated by the story of a young listener, but troubling questions arise about the boy's identity. Benefit of the doubt: Karen delivered the testimony that sent her father to jail. But when he returns home a changed man, she is unsure about whom to trust.