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When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, Teddy’s grand, romantic country manor in the UK. She also didn't imagine that she’d need to open the manor’s doors to paying guests to afford the electric bill and repair the leaking roof. Yet somehow she and her young friend Wilfred—whom guests assume is serving as Easley’s charming-but-clumsy butler—and the loopy old gardener Mr. Hargis, are making it work.

Among the cast of this groundbreaking 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'60s trance; Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.

For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture...from a groundbreaking newspaper serial, to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales of the City is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

For almost four decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture - from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of nine novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park.

In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the best-selling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco and his evolution from curious youth to groundbreaking writer and gay rights pioneer. Also included is an exclusive conversation between Maupin and best-selling author Neil Gaiman.

Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a 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 friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband. Mary Ann finds refuge in the couple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of 57, she licks her wounds and takes stock of her mistakes.

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 55-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.

Suspenseful, comic, and profoundly moving, the latest novel in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series follows one of literature's most beloved and indelible characters as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her complicated past. Now 92, 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 caretaker, Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter, Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known Anna for nearly four decades.

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. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from Armistead Maupin.

Tranquility reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world's most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin's cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

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.

Mary Ann Singleton, 25 ans, fraichement débarquée de Cleveland, découvre avec joie les bonheurs et attitudes désinvoltes de San Francisco. Si Connie, sa copine superstar du lycée accepte de l'héberger, Mary Ann trouve rapidement son propre refuge au 28 Barbary Lane, où la délicieuse Mme Madrigal loge et fournit en herbes - et autres consolations - une petite bande de merveilleux locataires.

Armistead Maupin talks to Beth Anderson, Audible's publisher, about the adaptation of his novel The Night Listener. The book and the movie, which stars Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Rory Culkin, and Sandra Oh, were inspired by Maupin's real-life friendship with Anthony Godby Johnson, a young man who'd written a harrowing memoir about being abused, but whose very existence soon came into question. In this interview, Maupin reveals how tricky the overlap between fiction and reality can be.

This unprecedented audio project is as thought-provoking as it is mesmeric. The Night Listener is a meditation on the power of voices and the faith we place in them, and an extraordinary audio experience from an American literary icon.

Avec bonheur et mordant, Armistead Maupin nous fait tomber amoureux. Tour à tour d'une grande dame qui porte la décadence au rang d'art, d'une fille créative et sauvage, d'un jeune homme qui porte son cœur au bout de ses lèvres, d'une jeune femme prête à tout pour gravir son Mont d'espérance à elle... et de bien d'autres personnages.

Das Neonlicht flackert in den Clubs von San Francisco, und draußen wartet ein neues Leben auf die Barbary Lane 28. Die Achtziger haben San Francisco und seine Bewohner in ihren Bann gezogen. Mary Ann durchlebt wieder romantische Irrungen und Wirrungen und jagt einem charismatischen Psychopathen hinterher. DeDe wird unverhofft zu einer queeren Galionsfigur, und Brian richtet seinen Blick gen Zukunft.

Die Siebziger sind bald vorbei und die Ferne ruft. Wer kehrt zurück in das pulsierende San Francisco? Mary Ann hat sich endlich mit ihrem neuen Leben in San Francisco angefreundet, aber die Abenteuerlust treibt sie noch immer um. Da kommt ihr ein überraschendes Erbe gerade recht. Zusammen mit Michael Tolliver begibt sie sich auf große Kreuzfahrt, und sie beide finden, was sie so schmerzlich vermisst haben: die Liebe. Doch nicht alles ist, wie es scheint - und in San Francisco wird nichts mehr so sein wie zuvor.

Niemand würde Mary Ann als impulsiv bezeichnen, aber als sie sich eine Auszeit in San Francisco nimmt, beschließt sie kurzum, für immer zu bleiben. Hier an der sonnigen Westküste schillern die unterschiedlichsten Persönlichkeiten um die Wette. Auch die charismatische Anna Madrigal, die für jede verlorene Seele einen Joint und einen Platz in ihrer lebhaften Stadtvilla in der Barbary Lane parat hat. Die Schützlinge der Hausherrin zeigen Mary Ann das wilde Leben im bunten San Francisco.