Armistead Maupin Reihenfolge der Bücher

A CLASSIC OF LGBTQ LITERATURE THAT HAS BECOME A CULTSENSATION! San Francisco, late 1970s. At 28 BarbaryLane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She welcomes people who have nowhereelse to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness andher superb marijuana crop. Enter Mary Ann Singleton, a prudish, naïve,young woman who escaped her dull Ohio hometown for San Francisco. She settles inwith her other fellow tenants: Michael "Mouse," a personable younggay man, Brian Hawkins, an incorrigible Don Juan, and Mona Ramsey, a younghippyish bisexual. Little does the group know that they will soonform a dear family together. This is the beginning of a humorous, heartfeltsaga, between the summer of love and the appearance of AIDS, in the city ofsexual freedom! THE HEROES OF THISENCHANTING GROUP HAVE BEEN ENJOYED BY MILLIONS OF READERS WORLDWIDE! The novelshave been translated into 10 languages and sold over 6 million copies. The titlehas been adapted on TV (BBC), Limited Series (Netflix), Theater...and now ingraphic novel form for the first time.

Master storyteller Armistead Maupin - the man who defined the difference between 'a biological family' and 'a logical family,' who is both gifted with fearless art and the ability to speak for millions - finally tells his own story. Logical Family is a sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man Caitlin Moran

Continuing the saga of the tenants, past and present, of Mrs. Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. While the first trilogy celebrated the carefree excesses of the seventies, this volume tracks its hapless, all-too-human cast across the eighties--a decade troubled by plague, deceit, and overweening ambition

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 ... 'aupin deftly illustrates how far America and the pioneering Anna have come, and nearly forty years into the series, his writing remains wildly addictive but is deeper and richer."--People The last three novels of Armistead Maupin's bestselling, critically-acclaimed Tales of the City are now available for the first time as an omnibus edition. The epic series, published between 1978 and 2014, spans the decade before the AIDS crisis through the era of marriage equality following an unforgettable set of characters, whose diverse sexual identities helped set the social stage for the ongoing sexual revolution. Goodbye Barbary Lane-comprised of Michael Tolliver Lives (2007), Mary Ann in Autumn (2010), and The Days of Anna Madrigal (2014)-brings closure to the lives and legacies of the characters through which generations have found connection to America's larger cultural struggles over the past four decades. Joining two companion omnibus volumes, 28 Barbary Lane and Back to Barbary Lane, Goodbye Barbary Lane presents all of "Mr. Maupin's adeptness at fluid dialogue, his flair for shaping characters who thread the needle between pop archetypes and singular human beings, and his great gift for intricate if occasionally preposterous plotting"(New York Times)

Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving novels have carved a unique niche in American literature, capturing cultural change from the seventies through the early 2000s. These tales are as hard to resist as a dish of pistachios, enticing readers to play the game of "Just one more chapter," often leading to late nights. Originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first three installments introduced a mainstream audience to a diverse cast of characters navigating urban life. Among them are the bewildered Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins, the free-spirited Mona Ramsey, the hopeful Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal. Maupin skillfully weaves their stories, tackling social and sexual barriers while guiding them through heartbreak, triumph, terrors, and coincidences. The result is a sparkling and addictive comedy of manners that continues to enchant new generations of readers.

Wie alles begann - die legendären Vorgeschichten zur „Serie der Stunde“ (Spiegel online) auf Netflix. Amistead Maupins Stadtgeschichten sind legendär. Im Mittelpunkt des neunten und letzten Bandes steht Anna Madrigal, die legendäre Transgender-Dame und Hausherrin der Barbery Lane 28. Madrigal ist 92 Jahre alt und wünscht sich nichts mehr als einen ladyliken Abgang. Mit ihrem früheren Mieter Brian fährt sie nach Winnemucca, wo Madrigal - damals noch ein 16jähriger Junge - aus dem Puff, der ihr Zuhause war, weggelaufen ist. Auf dieser Reise bringt sie Geheimnisse ans Licht und stellt sich lange verdrängten Konflikten. «Die Tage der Anna Madrigal» ist ein spannendes, lustiges und berührendes Buch und ein würdiger Abschluss einer traditionsreichen Serie.

A hilarious and touching new installment of Armistead Maupin's beloved Tales of the City seriesTwenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband.Mary Ann finds temporary refuge in the couple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of fifty-seven, she licks her wounds and takes stock of her mistakes. Soon, with the help of Facebook and a few old friends, she begins to reengage with life, only to confront fresh terrors when her checkered past comes back to haunt her in a way she could never have imagined.After the intimate first-person narrative of Maupin's last novel, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn marks the author's return to the multicharacter plotlines and darkly comic themes of his earlier work. Among those caught in Mary Ann's orbit are her estranged daughter, Shawna, a popular sex blogger; Jake Greenleaf, Michael's transgendered gardening assistant; socialite DeDe Halcyon-Wilson; and the indefatigable Anna Madrigal, Mary Ann's former landlady at 28 Barbary Lane.More than three decades in the making, Armistead Maupin's legendary Tales of the City series rolls into a new age, still sassy, irreverent, and curious, and still exploring the boundaries of the human experience with insight, compassion, and mordant wit.

Mary Ann Singleton, die einst Mann und Kind wegen einer Fernsehkarriere verließ, ist nach San Francisco zurückgekehrt, leider aus unerfreulichem Anlass: Sie hat Gebärmutterkrebs. Sich zu Hause in Darien, wo jeder jeden kennt, einer Behandlung zu unterziehen, will sie um jeden Preis vermeiden. Außerdem ist zu Hause kein Zuhause mehr für sie, seit sie nach einem Skype-Chat mit ihrem Mann, der auf Geschäftsreise in Venedig weilte und vergessen hatte, die Webcam des Notebooks abzuschalten, live miterleben musste, wie er mit ihrer persönlichen Lebensberaterin Calliope schlief. Nun will sie einen Schlussstrich unter ihre Ehe ziehen. Und tatsächlich ist ihr die «logische» Familie der alten Freunde sehr viel hilfreicher als die biologische: Sie zieht in das kleine Gartenhäuschen, das Michael und Ben gerade auf ihrem Grundstück gebaut haben, und über die alten Freundinnen DeDe und D’or findet sie eine vertrauenswürdige Ärztin für die anstehende Totaloperation. Doch dann fliegt ihr ihre buntschillernde Vergangenheit um die Ohren … Viele Freunde und Vertraute aus dem großen Kreis der Stadtgeschichten tauchen in Mary Ann im Herbst wieder auf, gealtert zwar, doch bereit, das Leben weiter in all seinen Facetten zu genießen. Und in den Bögen, die Maupin spannt, entfaltet sich immer auch ein Panorama unserer Zeit: Facebook, Skype, die Wirtschaftskrise, all das ist spielerisch und witzig integriert – ein garantiertes Lesevergnügen.

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.