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Title: More Tales of the City
Author: Armistead Maupin
Narrator: Armistead Maupin
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-06-09
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
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 doppelgänger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favorite gynecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all - without ever leaving home.
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©1980 The Chronicle Publishing Company; (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers
Members Reviews:
An intriguing series of intertwined tales that will make you cry - and laugh your head off
I first became aware of Maupin's "Tales of the City" a little while ago while reading a book review in the Wall Street Journal. I added it to a list of books that I'd like to find and read some day. The review must have intrigued me, because when I saw it on Amazon the title caught my eye. I read the reviews and decided it would be a good purchase.
Clearly it was, since this is the 2nd book in the series. It's very hard to put this book into categories. It's definitely fiction.
Maupin's people in this world (San Francisco in, if I remember correctly, the 1970's? Late '70s?) weave throughout their own plotlines and those of the other characters in the book. The core group live in an unusual boarding house, run by an eccentric woman "of a certain age," who takes her boarders into her "family." Naturally, these family members also have family and friends (and other types of associates) from their lives outside of the house. Sometimes some of them move in (with or without an established boarder) or out, depending upon the circumstances of their unique and quite interesting lives.
San Francisco has long been known as a haven for eccentrics, artists, people of various sexual identities and old, wealthy society. Maupin's characters travel across these societal, sexual, gender and career lines freely and often. There are frightening villains, but they always receive their comeuppance in appropriate (sometimes humorous, sometimes graphic) ways.
I strongly recommend you give this book a try. My description of Maupin's writing style is sadly deficient. Let's just say it's a sort of New Age soap opera, romance, social commentary and comedy wrapped up in several continuing delicious packages.
The story continues!
I couldn't read a word without seeing the story, the characters and San Francisco unfold in front of me. I became emotionally involved with every aspect- the city, the characters and their stories. I wanted to be there.
San Francisco in the 70's - love it!
ALL of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" books are remarkable. I read them when they first came out, and am now re-reading them, more for nostalgic reasons. Maupin knows how to write characters, and he gives them each their own voice: from the young, green Maryann Singleton from Ohio, to the fabulous over 50 year old Anna Madrigal.
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Title: More Tales of the City
Author: Armistead Maupin
Narrator: Armistead Maupin
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-06-09
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
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 doppelgänger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favorite gynecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all - without ever leaving home.
Listen to more
.
©1980 The Chronicle Publishing Company; (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers
Members Reviews:
An intriguing series of intertwined tales that will make you cry - and laugh your head off
I first became aware of Maupin's "Tales of the City" a little while ago while reading a book review in the Wall Street Journal. I added it to a list of books that I'd like to find and read some day. The review must have intrigued me, because when I saw it on Amazon the title caught my eye. I read the reviews and decided it would be a good purchase.
Clearly it was, since this is the 2nd book in the series. It's very hard to put this book into categories. It's definitely fiction.
Maupin's people in this world (San Francisco in, if I remember correctly, the 1970's? Late '70s?) weave throughout their own plotlines and those of the other characters in the book. The core group live in an unusual boarding house, run by an eccentric woman "of a certain age," who takes her boarders into her "family." Naturally, these family members also have family and friends (and other types of associates) from their lives outside of the house. Sometimes some of them move in (with or without an established boarder) or out, depending upon the circumstances of their unique and quite interesting lives.
San Francisco has long been known as a haven for eccentrics, artists, people of various sexual identities and old, wealthy society. Maupin's characters travel across these societal, sexual, gender and career lines freely and often. There are frightening villains, but they always receive their comeuppance in appropriate (sometimes humorous, sometimes graphic) ways.
I strongly recommend you give this book a try. My description of Maupin's writing style is sadly deficient. Let's just say it's a sort of New Age soap opera, romance, social commentary and comedy wrapped up in several continuing delicious packages.
The story continues!
I couldn't read a word without seeing the story, the characters and San Francisco unfold in front of me. I became emotionally involved with every aspect- the city, the characters and their stories. I wanted to be there.
San Francisco in the 70's - love it!
ALL of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" books are remarkable. I read them when they first came out, and am now re-reading them, more for nostalgic reasons. Maupin knows how to write characters, and he gives them each their own voice: from the young, green Maryann Singleton from Ohio, to the fabulous over 50 year old Anna Madrigal.