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The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis.

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 is the pitch-perfect sixth novel in...

Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels--the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume--have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.

"These novels are as difficult to put down as a dish of pistachios. The reader starts playing the old childhood game of 'Just one more chapter and I'll turn out the lights, ' only to look up and discover it's after midnight."--Los Angeles Times Book Review...

Die Siebziger sind bald vorbei und die Ferne ruft. Wer kehrt zurück in das pulsierende San Francisco?

Mary Ann hat sich endlich mit ihrem neuen Leben in San Francisco angefreundet, aber die Abenteuerlust treibt sie noch immer um. Da kommt ihr ein überraschendes Erbe gerade recht. Zusammen mit Michael Tolliver begibt sie sich auf große Kreuzfahrt, und sie beide finden, was sie so schmerzlich vermisst haben: die Liebe. Doch nicht alles ist, wie es scheint - und in San Francisco wird nichts mehr so sein wie zuvor.

Unterdessen sucht Mona Ramsey an...

Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver--the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers--for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary . . . and filled with the everyday miracles of living.

The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis.

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 doppelganger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favorite gynecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest...

Das Neonlicht flackert in den Clubs von San Francisco, und draußen wartet ein neues Leben auf die Barbary Lane 28.

Die Achtziger haben San Francisco und seine Bewohner in ihren Bann gezogen. Mary Ann durchlebt wieder romantische Irrungen und Wirrungen und jagt einem charismatischen Psychopathen hinterher. DeDe wird unverhofft zu einer queeren Galionsfigur, und Brian richtet seinen Blick gen Zukunft. Wird der Frauenheld etwa sesshaft? Unterdessen verliert eine Kolumnistin ihr Herz im Park. Michael Tolliver sucht beim schwulen Rodeo nach der Liebe, und Anna Madrigal...

The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis.

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...