‘The Tales of the city sequence has been one of the literary menus plaisirs of the last decade……Maupin,with all his elegance and charm,has found a place a mong the classics’JONATHAN KEATES,BOSERVER
In this and self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life ,a fiercely ambitious TVtalk show host finds she child in San Francisco.Wstful and compassioate yet subversively funny,sure of You and a husband and child in San of You is a trumphant finale to one of the most addictively entetainging series of novels ever wrtten.
‘Armistead Maupin’s a cclaim is richly deserved.Huses suspense,mystery and coincidece far more in vetively than the more typical novelist'JONATHAN COE
‘I Know Iwas the only one who was up until two in the morning,ponimsing myself to stop after just one more chapter’DAVID FEINBERG,NEW YOUK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Maupin's work is drug:it’s easy,it’s fun and it leaves you greedy for more…superb'CHRISTNA THOMPSON’THE AUSTRALIAN
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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