Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to Berlin the inspiration for the musical Cabaret but is also the author of plays, novels, and diaries. The Isherwood Century gathers twenty-four essays and interviews offering a fresh, in-depth view of Isherwood, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence as both a literary and a gay pioneer."
Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to Berlin the inspiration f...
A literary celebration of one of the most important relationships in a straight girl's life--her gay best friend This collection of original essays goes beyond the banter to get to the essence of an intimate relationship like no other. With a foreword by Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys brings together pieces by National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon (The Noonday Demon), novelist Gigi Levangie Grazer (The Starter Wife), Barneys New York creative director Simon Doonan (Nasty), and many others from all...
A literary celebration of one of the most important relationships in a straight girl's life--her gay best friend This collection of origina...
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.
Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero M...
First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafes; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures...
First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are reco...
"An enormously talented writer. . . . By writing about what's seemingly different, Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously, painfully true for all of us." --Amy Tan, author of The Bonesetter's Daughter
"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...
"An enormously talented writer. . . . By writing about what's seemingly different, Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously, p...
In seiner Mitternachts-Radioshow tröstet Gabriel Noone unzählige Menschen, aber er selbst ist nicht glücklich. Da bekommt er Post von einem 13-jährigen Fan: Pete ist unheilbar krank, verfügt jedoch über Lebenskraft und ein ungewöhnliches Schreibtalent. In langen Telefonaten freunden sich die beiden an, doch als Gabriel auf eine Begegnung drängt, entzieht sich Pete. Lange wehrt sich Gabriel gegen einen schlimmen Verdacht ...
In seiner Mitternachts-Radioshow tröstet Gabriel Noone unzählige Menschen, aber er selbst ist nicht glücklich. Da bekommt er Post von einem 13-jäh...
"An enormously talented writer. . . . By writing about what's seemingly different, Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously, painfully true for all of us." --Amy Tan, author of The Bonesetter's Daughter
"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...
"An enormously talented writer. . . . By writing about what's seemingly different, Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously, p...
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...
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 uni...
The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters--Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane--as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past.
Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of "leaving like a lady," Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her "logical family" in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian...
The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, ...
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels--the final three of which are collected in this third 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.
"These final days of his San Francisco friends and lovers, gay and straight, are seriously moving.... Maupin deftly illustrates how far America and the pioneering Anna have come, and nearly forty years into the...
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels--the final three of which are collected in this third...
