Armistead Maupin
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 1
Formats
Description
A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat lotharios and cutthroat debutantes.
The story of the residents of an apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After suffering personal calamities in New York, Mary Ann Singleton moves back to San Francisco after being gone for twenty years and begins to slowly rebuild her life, only to confront fresh terrors when her past comes back to haunt her.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2014.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Reflecting on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, Maupin shares his candid search for his "logical family," the people he could call his own. "Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us," he writes. "We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives." From his loving relationship with his palm-reading Grannie who insisted Maupin...
Author
Series
Description
San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She wel-comes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her superb marijuana crop. The novel starts with the arrival of Mary Ann Singleton, a prudish, naïve, young woman who escaped her dull Ohio hometown for San Francisco. She settles in with her other fellow tenants: Michael "Mouse," a personable young gay man, Brian...
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 10
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey--now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds--and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions of the boy's identity comes up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([8] p.) : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 323 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
San Francisco is the hippest city in America, and right in the middle of it are the residents of 28 Barbary Lane. In the early 80's, San Francisco was a sunny, comfortable place where everyone smiled most of the time, possibly because sex was rarely further than a wink and a nod away, as this installment of the series makes clear. The various inhabitants of Mrs. Madrigal's building are living the San Francisco high life to the fullest as unusual...
Series
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brought to life is San Francisco in the 1970's. The quirky lovelorn tenants of 28 Barbary Lane are following their fortunes and follies under the watchful eye of their maternal landlady. Intersecting lives, gleeful coincidences and innocent raunch are all part of the fun.
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jennifer Kroot's documentary about the creator of Tales of the city moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of '70's San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.