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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 fourth 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.

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. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the...

Ein melancholischer Wind weht durch die Straßen von San Francisco, aber die Familie hält zusammen.

Das San Francisco der Achtzigerjahre ist im Wandel. Eine Epidemie verändert das Leben in der Stadt, die Clubszene und gerade die queeren Viertel. Mittendrin stecken Mary Ann und Brian tief in ihrer Familienplanung, Michael Tolliver ist in Trauer, und Anna Madrigal vermisst ihre Tochter. Unterdessen bereitet sich ganz San Francisco auf majestätischen Besuch vor: Queen Elizabeth II. besichtigt die Stadt an der Bucht. Die Clique aus der Barbary Lane 28 macht jedoch...

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...

By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels--the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected in this second omnibus volume--stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.

"Tearing through the tales] one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification; it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look...

Melancholisch, frech und wortgewandt: Armistead Maupin schreibt über den heimlichen Helden seiner «Stadtgeschichten».

San Francisco. Ein neues Jahrhundert beginnt ...

In den frühen 2000ern erkennt Michael Tolliver die Stadt an der Bucht kaum wieder. Gestern gehörte er noch zu den Pionieren der Schwulenrechtsbewegung, heute fährt die Straßenbahn die Touristen sogar bis in sein geliebtes Castro-Viertel. Irgendwie hat die Zeit ihn eingeholt. Die Haare sind ergraut, er hat einen Bauch bekommen, und der Rücken macht auch nicht mehr alles...

"Maupin writes with warmth, acuity and tremendous wit. . . . Read him." --Publishers Weekly

Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin's Mary Ann in Autumn is a touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh starts, as the City by the Bay welcomes back Mary Ann...

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...

The third 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 calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society...