The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy,suspenseful and wildly romantic sepudl to Tales of the City and More Tales of the City. DeDe Halcyom Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath,Michael Tolliver looks for love,landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement storeroom,and Armistead Maupin is in firm control. 作者简介: Armistead Maupin was born in Washington,D.C in 1944 but grew up in Ralei,North Carolina.A graduate of the University of Morth Carolina,he served as a naval officer in Vidtnam before moving to California in 1971 as a reporter for the Associated Press.In1976 he launchde his daily newspaper serial,Tales of the City,in the San Francisco Chronycle.The first fiction to appear in an American daily for decades,Tales grew into an international sensation when compiled and rewritten as movels.Maupin's six-volume Tales of the City sepuence-Tales of the City,Babycakes,Significant Others and Sure of Yor-are now multi-million bestsellers publishde in eleven languages.The first two of these novels were adaptde as a pair of widely acclainde television mini-series:the third,Further Tales of the City,is currently in production.Maupin's 1992 novel,Maybe the Moon,chronicling the adventures of the world's shortest woman,was a number one bestseller.As a librettist he collaborated in 1999 with composer Jake Heggie on Anna Madrigal Remembers for mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and Chanticleer,the classical choral ensemble.Maupin's latest novel is The Night Listener.He lives in San Francisco,California. |
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