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Michael Tolliver Lives Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: HarperCollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Gay | Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Gay & Lesbian | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Call Me by Your Name: A Novel The Back Passage The Beloved Son Dante's Cove - The Complete Second Season Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.) ASIN: 0060761350 Release Date: 2007-06-12

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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contem-porary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his ground-breaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the fifty-five-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. </p>

Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life, the tender alliances that sustain him in the hardest of times. Michael Tolliver Lives follows its protagonist as he finds love with a younger man, attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida, and finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady. </p>

Though this is a stand-alone novel—accessible to fans of Tales of the City and new readers alike—a reassuring number of familiar faces appear along the way. As usual, the author's mordant wit and ear for pitch-perfect dialogue serve every aspect of the story—from the bawdy to the bittersweet. Michael Tolliver Lives is a novel about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible. </p>

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Maybe the Moon: A Novel Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: HarperCollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Night Listener, The tie-in: A Novel (P.S.) Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6) Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5) Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4) Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3) ASIN: 0060169478

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All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she waits for the miracle that will finally make her a star.

In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles -- from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs and human ignorance. Then one day a lanky piano player saunters into Cady's life, unleashing heady new emotions, and she finds herself going for broke, shooting the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed. Her accomplice in the venture is her best friend, Jeff, a gay waiter who sees Cady's struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet.

As clear-eyed as it is charming, Maybe the Moon is a modern parable about the mythology of the movies and the toll it exacts from it participants on both sides of the screen. It is a work that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit from a perspective rarely found in literature.

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Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 1) Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Comic | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books United States | Short Stories | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: More Tales of the City (Showtime Tie-In Edition) Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3) Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4) Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5) Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6) ASIN: 0060964049

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Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed a singular 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 is both a wry comedy of manners and a deeply involving portrait of a vanished era.

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More Tales of the City (Showtime Tie-In Edition) Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Movie Tie-Ins | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3) Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.) Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4) Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5) Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6) ASIN: 0060929383

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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. </p>

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Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3) Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: More Tales of the City (Showtime Tie-In Edition) Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4) Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5) Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.) Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6) ASIN: 0060924926

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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 San Francisco park.

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Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6) Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Gay | Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Gay & Lesbian | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5) Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4) Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3) More Tales of the City (Showtime Tie-In Edition) Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.) ASIN: 0060924845

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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.</p>

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Night Listener, The tie-in: A Novel (P.S.) Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Movie Tie-Ins | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Gay | Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Gay & Lesbian | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Maybe the Moon: A Novel Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.) More Tales of the City (Showtime Tie-In Edition) Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3) Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4) ASIN: 0061120200 Release Date: 2006-07-25

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When an editor sends Gabriel yet another book to blurb, he reluctantly opens the package to find a long, rending memoir by Pete Lomax, an HIV-positive 13-year-old survivor of incest, rape, and sexual slavery. The book is called The Blacking Factory, after the miserable London bottling factory where Dickens spent part of his poverty-stricken childhood. As Gabriel reflects: <blockquote>Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory, some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth. And the outcome can't be called. Some of us end up like Dickens; others like Jeffrey Dahmer. It's not a question of good or evil, Pete believes. Just the random brutality of the universe and our native ability to withstand it. </blockquote> After Pete escaped from his parents and was adopted by a therapist named Donna Lomax, his slow recovery was helped along by his memoir-writing and by frequent doses of "Noone at Night."

Touched by Pete's devotion to his stories, as well as the boy's obvious need for a father figure, Gabriel finds himself drawn into an intense relationship with his young fan, involving long, late-night phone calls that begin to worry Gabriel's friends. And, other than their mutual need, how much does he really know about Pete, anyway? As Gabriel begins to question his own motives, as well as those of the boy, The Night Listener transforms itself from an absorbing but quotidian story of loss and midlife angst into a dark and suspenseful page-turner with a playful metaphysical aspect and an un-Dickensian sexual candor. --Regina Marler

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"I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring reality. Gabriel's most sympathetic listener is Pete Lomax, a thirteen-year-old fan in Wisconsin whose own horrific past has left him wise and generous beyond his years. But when this virtual father-son relationship is rocked by doubt, a desperate search for the truth ensues. Welcome to the complex, vertiginous world of The Night Listener. </p>

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Babycakes (Greening of Industry Network Series) Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: HarperAudio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette General | Literature & Fiction | Books on Cassette | Formats | Books General | Books on Cassette | Formats | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5) Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6) Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3) More Tales of the City (Showtime Tie-In Edition) Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.) ASIN: 1559942762

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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. <BLOCKQUOTE>

"Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh."<BR>--Ian McKellen

"Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop." <BR>--Denver Post

"Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on."<BR> -- New York Times Book Review</BLOCKQUOTE>

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Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5) Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6) Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4) Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3) More Tales of the City (Showtime Tie-In Edition) Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.) ASIN: 0060924810

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Tranquillity 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.

"Comedy in its most classical form...some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read." <BR> --The Guardian

"The color is wonderful, the line bold and flowing. It is also wise, witty, loving and caring about the foibles and frailties we all seem to have." <BR> --David Hockney

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28 Barbary Lane: A "Tales of the City" Omnibus Armistead Maupin Manufacturer: HarperCollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Maupin, Armistead | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6) Significant Others (The Tales of the City Series, V. 5) Maybe the Moon: A Novel Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4) More Tales of the City ASIN: 0060164662

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Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels--the first three of which are collected in the is omnibus edition--have earned a unique niche in American literature, not only as matchless entertainment, but as indelible documents of cultural change in the seventies and eighties.

When originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City (1978), More Tales of the City (1980) and Futher Tales of the City (1982) afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.

Among the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brain 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.

Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through mail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

With a foreword by the author.

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1. François Mauriac
2. Mauriac, François
3. Mawer, Simon
4. May, Karl
5. Mayer, Bernadette
6. Mayes, Frances
7. Mayo, Wendell
8. McBain, Ed
9. McCabe, Patrick
10. McCaffrey, Anne

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