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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...

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.

Ein emotionaler Roadtrip im Westen der Vereinigten Staaten: Auf spannende, lustige und berührende Weise nimmt die Clique aus der Barbary Lane in Armistead Maupins neuntem Band der Stadtgeschichten-Reihe Abschied.

Mit Anna Madrigal hat alles begonnen, mit Anna Madrigal wird es enden. Im Alter von zweiundneunzig Jahren scheint die Transgender-Matriarchin ihren Frieden in San Francisco gefunden zu haben. Die Mitglieder ihrer Wahlfamilie sind auf dem Weg in die jenseitige Landschaft des Burning-Man-Festivals. Shawna will schwanger werden, Michael befürchtet,...

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...

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...

"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...

"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...

Mary Ann Singleton kehrt nach San Francisco zurück, leider aus traurigem Anlass: Sie hat Krebs. Zu Hause will sie sich nicht behandeln lassen, erst recht nicht, seit sie bei einem Skype-Chat live miterleben musste, wie ihr Mann sie mit ihrer persönlichen Lebensberaterin betrog. Mary Ann will die Scheidung und findet Trost im Kreis ihrer alten Freunde: Michael Tolliver, Ben, Shawna, DeDe und D'Or. Doch gerade als Mary Ann es sich im Gartenhäuschen von Michael und Ben gemütlich gemacht hat, fliegt ihr ihre bunt schillernde Vergangenheit um die Ohren ...

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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...