The Days of Anna Madrigal
  • Published: 1 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9780552778831
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

The Days of Anna Madrigal

Tales of the City 9

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5 Mar 2024
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The ninth volume in Armistead Maupin's widely acclaimed and much-loved Tales of the City series.

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

'Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been’ Booklist (starred review)
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Now ninety-two, Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her ‘logical family’ in San Francisco. Some members of that family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert but Anna has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. There she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to some unfinished business she has long avoided.

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 a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
  • Published: 1 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9780552778831
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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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

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Also by Armistead Maupin

Mona of the Manor
Tales of the City: Series 1 and 2
Logical Family
Mary Ann in Autumn
Michael Tolliver Lives
The Night Listener
Maybe The Moon
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Praise for The Days of Anna Madrigal

One of the most acclaimed sagas of our time…A celebration of life in all its craziness…As good as anything Maupin has offered us

John Sutherland, The Times

The brilliance of Maupin is his mingling of high camp with tragedy and deep feeling – all with a miraculously light touch

Daily Mail, Wendy Holden

A proper Maupin-esque swansong – moving, funny and obscene. We expect nothing less

Isabel Berwick, Financial Times

Christopher Isherwood was absolutely correct when he declared Maupin to be the Dickens of the modern world

Chuck Palahniuk

The Tales of the City sequence has been one of the literary menus plaisirs of the past decade - Maupin with his elegance and charm has found a place among the classics

Observer

May well be the funniest series of novels currently in progress...Maupin's ear for dialogue is as acute as his feeling for characterisation, and the net result is as engaging a read as you are likely to encounter

The Times

Comedy in its most classical form...some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read

Guardian
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