Tales Of The City

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Beschreibung

<p><b>The first novel in the beloved</b> <b><i>Tales of the City</i></b> <b>series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga, is an uproariously moving novel and an indelible portrait of cultural change from the seventies.<br><br>Named as one of the BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Novels,</b> <b>a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick and Britain's favourite gay/lesbian novel from <i>The Big Gay Read</i></b><br><i><b>____________________</b></i><br><br>Originally serialised in the <i>San Francisco Chronicle </i>in the 1970s<i>,</i> Armistead Maupin's <i>Tales of the City</i> afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.<br><br>Among the cast of this ground-breaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.<br><br>Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781804994252

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

192 x 127 x 26 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Transworld Publ. Ltd UK