More Tales Of The City
  • Published: 6 October 2000
  • ISBN: 9780552998772
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99

More Tales Of The City

Tales of the City 2

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The second volume in the acclaimed series.

The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.

‘Entertains, illuminates… A cultural touchstone that has enlarged our understanding of the varieties of human behavior’ Washington Post
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The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cosy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgänger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favourite gynaecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all—without ever leaving home.

Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
  • Published: 6 October 2000
  • ISBN: 9780552998772
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Armistead Maupin

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 and Mary Ann in Autumn. 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 San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner.

For more information on Armistead Maupin and his books, see his website at www.armisteadmaupin.com

portrait photo of Armistead Maupin

Also by Armistead Maupin

Mona of the Manor
Logical Family
The Days of Anna Madrigal
Mary Ann in Autumn
Michael Tolliver Lives
The Night Listener
Maybe The Moon
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Praise for More Tales Of The City

San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin

Independent

Maupin is a richly gifted comic author

Observer

A consummate entertainer... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly

Times Literary Supplement

[Maupin] is the perfect chronicler of the moral, political, sexual and social fluxes of the world as we have lived and known them... Not only is all human life here but a hell of a lot besides that you'd never imagine

City Limits

Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials... it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling

Literary Review

I have read Maupin's first two books three times already and shall probably read them again before too long. I love them for very much the same qualities that make me love the novels of Dickens

Christopher Isherwood