" Écrits en grande partie sous forme de saynètes dialoguées, ces six romans décrivent mieux que n'importe quel traité de sociologie l'Amérique marginale des années 70 et 80, quand San Francisco était le laboratoire de toutes les expériences nouvelles. Amo...
Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Bernard Cohen.Anna Madrigal, la légende du 28, Barbary Lane, sait qu'elle n'est pas éternelle.À 93 ans, pour « s'en aller comme une dame », elle part affronter son passé. La voici de retour dans le Nevada, là où elle fut Andy, adolescent amoureux du ténébreux La...
" Tôt ou tard, où que nous vivions, il nous faut partir en diaspora, nous aventurer loin de nos parents biologiques pour découvrir notre famille logique, celle qui pour nous fera véritablement sens. Il le faut, si nous ne voulons pas gâcher nos vies. " Cette famille dont Armistead Maupin s'est éloi...
Après vingt ans d'exil à New York, Mary Ann Singleton revient sur les lieux de sa jeunesse à San Francisco. Trompée par son mari, atteinte d'un cancer, elle a décidé de se battre pour changer de vie. Elle est hébergée par son ami de toujours, Michael Tolliver, et retrouve la légendaire propriétaire ...
" Au fil des années 80 et de six volumes, les Chroniques ont connu, aux États-Unis, un succès croissant, critique autant que public : bien au-delà de San Francisco et d'un lectorat gay, Maupin a peu à peu conquis une audience internationale qui, pas plus que ses personnages, ne se referme dans un qu...
The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the City rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams. ...
Twenty 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 ga...
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-y...
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous - unmistak...
In this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, a fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure o...
Significant Others, the fifth self-contained chronicle in the Tales of the City saga, is a cunningly observed class comedy that's sure to be relished by the cognoscenti and by new readers alike. A holiday in the redwoods goes uproariously awry when the opposing sexes camp out rather too close...
The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic sequel to Tales of the City and More Tales of the City. DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons...
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grievin...
Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former Guinness Book of Records holder as the world's shortest woman. All of 31 inches tall...
Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years when a publisher sends him proofs of a remarkable book: the memoir of a sickly thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific s...
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 ...
'A sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man.' CAITLIN MORANBorn in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man 'on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.' Rea...