Книга: Maupin, Armistead «The Days of Anna Madrigal»

The Days of Anna Madrigal

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin s bestselling Tales of the City series, follows one of modern literature s most unforgettable and enduring characters Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past. Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of leaving like a lady, Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her logical family in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades. Some members of Anna s family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada s Black Rock Desert where 60, 000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. Anna herself has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road... ISBN:9780857521293

Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2014)

ISBN: 9780857521293

Maupin, Armistead

▪ American author
born May 13, 1944, Washington, D.C., U.S.

      American novelist best known for his Tales of the City series.

      Maupin was reared in North Carolina. He showed an early interest in film and theatre. His adolescent years were complicated by his growing awareness of his homosexuality. Graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1966, Maupin worked for a time under the future senator Jesse Helms at a local TV station, following a conservative bent that he later abandoned. He then joined the U.S. Navy and served first as an ensign, then as a civilian volunteer in Vietnam. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1970–71, before he was assigned to San Francisco.

      Maupin's career as a fiction writer was launched when his Tales of the City was published as a serial in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976–77, then as a book in 1978. The story, set in San Francisco, focuses on three characters—Mary Ann Singleton, a naive young woman from Cleveland, Ohio; Michael (“Mouse”) Tolliver, her homosexual friend; and their motherly landlady, Anna Madrigal, a transsexual. The author's compassion for his characters and his lively humorous style made Tales of the City a cult favourite. Five popular sequels followed: More Tales of the City (1980), Further Tales of the City (1982), Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989), all but the last initially serialized in San Francisco newspapers. Characters from the series are also featured in Michael Tolliver Lives (2007), but Maupin denied that the novel was a sequel. Although the tone of the books is generally lighthearted, throughout the series characters confront serious personal and political issues, including loneliness, parenthood, and the loss of a partner to AIDS.

      Maupin broke from the series to write Maybe the Moon (1992), the story of a dwarf actress. The author was the subject of an hour-long British Broadcasting Corporation documentary, Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up (1992); Tales of the City was broadcast on public television in 1993 and 1994 and More Tales of the City was broadcast on cable television in 1997. Through the story of a writer's telephone relationship with a sexually abused adolescent, The Night Listener (2000) meditates on the relationship of men to each other, as fathers and sons, or putative sons, and lovers.

Additional Reading
Patrick Gale, Armistead Maupin (1999).

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Источник: Maupin, Armistead

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