Tales of the City - Tales of the City

Informationen zum Autor Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City , Further Tales of the City , Babycakes , Significant Others , Sure of You, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener , Michael Tolliver Lives , Mary Ann in Autumn, The Days of Anna Madrigal and Mona of the Manor. He also wrote an acclaimed memoir, Logical Family . Three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in London with his husband, Christopher Turner. For more information on Armistead Maupin and his books, see his website at www.armisteadmaupin.com Klappentext Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C. in 1944 but was brought up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in Vietnam before moving to California in 1971 as a reporter for the Associated Press. In 1976 he launched his daily newspaper serial, Tales of the City, in the San Francisco Chronicle. The first fiction to appear in an American daily for decades, Tales grew into an international sensation when compiled and rewritten as novels. Maupin's six-volume Tales of the City sequence - Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, and Sure of You - are now multi-million bestsellers published in eleven languages. The first three of these novels were adapted into widely acclaimed television mini-series. Maupin's 1992 novel, Maybe the Moon, chronicling the adventures of the world's shortest woman, was a number one bestseller. His novel The Night Listener was made into a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette in 2006. Armistead Maupin lives in San Francisco, California. For more information about Armistead Maupin and his work, please visit his official author website at: www.armisteadmaupin.com Zusammenfassung NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS Now a Netflix series starring Ellen Page and Laura Linney ....

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Maupin Armistead, Armistead Maupin, Maupin Armistead
• Editore: BLACK SWAN
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780552998765
• ISBN: 978-0-552-99876-5
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Serie: Black Swan Paperbacks; Black Swan; Stadtgeschichten; Tales of the City Series; Black Swan Paperbacks; Tales of the City; Tales of the City Series; Stadtgeschichten; Stadtgeschichten / Tales of the City Series
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Romance / General, Adult & contemporary romance, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / City Life, California, contemporary romance, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Humorous fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, FICTION / Romance / LGBTQ+ / Gay, FICTION / Romance / LGBTQ+ / General, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General