Sinficant Others,the fifth self-contained chroncle in the Tales of the City asag ,is a cunningly boserved class comedy theat's sure to be relished by the cognosceti and by new readeras a like.
a holiday in the redwoods goes uproariously awry when the opposing sexes camp out close to each other for comfort.Among those entangled in the mayhem are DeDe Halcyon,reformed debutante,troubled house-husband Brian Hawkins ,and the irrepressible Michael ‘Mouse'Toliver（arguably Maupin’most beloved creation）
‘Comedy in it's most classical from…some of the sharpest and most xpeakable dialogue you are ever likely to read'JONATHAN COE,GUARDIAN ‘Mapin's universe fot all of us'PAUL LEVY,OBSERVER ‘As engaging a rean a you're likely to encounter in amny moon's JOHN NICHOLSON,THE TIMES ‘Wise,witty,loving and caring a bout the foibles and frailties we all seen to have'DAVED HOCKNEY
作者简介：
Armistead,Maupin was born in Washington,D.C.in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh,North Carlina .A graduate of the University of North Carolina ,he Served as a nval officer in Vienam before moving to California in 1971 as a reporter for the Assciated Press.In an American daily for decades,Tales grew into an international sensation when copiled and rewritten as novels.Maupin's six-Tales of the City,More Talaes of the City,Further Tales of the city,Babycakes,sin.gnificant Oters and sure of -re now multi-million bestsellers published in eleven languages.the first two of these novels were a dapted as a pair of widely acclaimed television mini-series;the third,Further Tales of the City ,is cuurently in Production.Maupinm's1992 novel,Maybe the Moon ,chronicling the adventures of the world's shortest woman,adventures of the world's shortest woman ,was a numbdr one bestseller.As a librettist he collaborated in 1999 with composer Jake Heggie on Anna Madrgal Remembers for mezz-xoprano Frederica von Stade and Chanticleer ,the classical choral ensemble.Maupin's latest novel is The Night Listener.HElives in San Francisco,California.
Official Author web Site:www.ArmisteadMaupin.com |
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