Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner. Tales will be directed by Jason Moore ( Avenue Q and Shrek).

He is currently writing a musical version of Tales of the City with Jason Sellards (aka Jake Shears) and John Garden (aka JJ) of the disco and glam rock-inspired pop group Scissor Sisters. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Three miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. In 1976 he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maupin worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. Like its companion volumes, 28 Barbary Lane and Goodbye, Barbary Lane, Back to Barbary Lane is distinguished by what The Guardian of London has called 'some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read.'Īrmistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. While the first trilogy celebrated the carefree excesses of the seventies, this volume tracks its hapless, all-too-human cast across the eighties-a decade troubled by plague, deceit, and overweening ambition.

Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. The nine classic comedies, some of which originally appeared as serials in San Francisco newspapers, have won Maupin critical acclaim around the world and enthralled legions of devoted fans.īack to Barbary Lane comprises the second omnibus of the series- Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989)-continuing the saga of the tenants, past and present, of Mrs. No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run.” -Walter Kendrick, Village Voice Literary SupplementĪrmistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium. “Tearing through one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels-the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected in this second omnibus volume-stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.

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