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Avec bonheur et mordant, Armistead Maupin nous fait tomber amoureux. Tour à tour d'une grande dame qui porte la décadence au rang d'art, d'une fille créative et sauvage, d'un jeune homme qui porte son cœur au bout de ses lèvres, d'une jeune femme prête à tout pour gravir son Mont d'espérance à elle... et de bien d'autres personnages.

For almost four decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture - from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of nine novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband. Mary Ann finds refuge in the couple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of 57, she licks her wounds and takes stock of her mistakes.

When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, Teddy’s grand, romantic country manor in the UK. She also didn't imagine that she’d need to open the manor’s doors to paying guests to afford the electric bill and repair the leaking roof. Yet somehow she and her young friend Wilfred--whom guests assume is serving as Easley’s charming-but-clumsy butler--and the loopy old gardener Mr. Hargis, are making it work.

Dede se sent toujours plus délaissée par Beauchamp, mais elle trouve du réconfort dans la personne d'un jeune livreur asiatique. Mona, sans recourir aux services à domicile, trouve aussi que sa vie est triste, elle pète un plomb au boulot et elle perd son job. La morosité gagne également Mary Ann qui se sent dupée par Beauchamp.

For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture...from a groundbreaking newspaper serial, to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales of the City is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

Mary Ann Singleton, 25 ans, fraichement débarquée de Cleveland, découvre avec joie les bonheurs et attitudes désinvoltes de San Francisco. Si Connie, sa copine superstar du lycée accepte de l'héberger, Mary Ann trouve rapidement son propre refuge au 28 Barbary Lane, où la délicieuse Mme Madrigal loge et fournit en herbes - et autres consolations - une petite bande de merveilleux locataires.

Suspenseful, comic, and profoundly moving, the latest novel in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series follows one of literature's most beloved and indelible characters as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her complicated past. Now 92, 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 caretaker, Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter, Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known Anna for nearly four decades.

This unprecedented audio project is as thought-provoking as it is mesmeric. The Night Listener is a meditation on the power of voices and the faith we place in them, and an extraordinary audio experience from an American literary icon.

Niemand würde Mary Ann als impulsiv bezeichnen, aber als sie sich eine Auszeit in San Francisco nimmt, beschließt sie kurzum, für immer zu bleiben. Hier an der sonnigen Westküste schillern die unterschiedlichsten Persönlichkeiten um die Wette. Auch die charismatische Anna Madrigal, die für jede verlorene Seele einen Joint und einen Platz in ihrer lebhaften Stadtvilla in der Barbary Lane parat hat. Die Schützlinge der Hausherrin zeigen Mary Ann das wilde Leben im bunten San Francisco.

Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver - the 55-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers - for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary...and filled with the everyday miracles of living.

The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park.

The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy 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 favorite gynecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all - without ever leaving home.

The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park.

The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy 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 favorite gynecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all - without ever leaving home.

Pour se remonter le moral, Mary Ann décide de devenir bénévole chez "SOS-Ecoute San Francisco". Là, Vincent lui apprend les rouages de la consolation par téléphone des âmes perdues, lui qui les écoute si bien de son unique oreille - il s'est coupé l'autre un jour de déprime. Anna Madrigal et Edgar Halcyon se découvrent et vivent leurs amours clandestines avec bonheur, tandis que Dede suspecte Beauchamp de la tromper.

Mona is the eccentric Lady of Easley House, running a bed and breakfast to keep her inherited English manor afloat. Wilfred is Mona's 26-year-old adopted son who spends his weekends in London, looking for love in the gay bars of Soho while pining after his pen pal, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver. The current guest of the manor is Rhonda, a straight-laced southern belle who has left her abusive husband and has no idea what to do next, especially in the company of the free-spirited Mona and Wilfred.

"C'est étrange, mais on raconte que toute personne qui disparaît est aperçue à San Francisco." La Saison 1 s'ouvre sur cette citation d'Oscar Wilde, et rien ne saurait mieux décrire tout l'ambiguïté de la ville : la liberté a un coût, et elle ne dispense pas de la responsabilité de ses actes.

Norman enquête sur Mme Madrigal, tandis que Dede cherche de son côté un docteur discret qui puisse la sortir d'une situation... délicate qui inclut un indice asiatique en gestation. Les parents de Michael viennent eux aussi fouiner dans la vie de leur fils, et Mona de son côté décide de retrouver les parents cachés de son amante qui a réapparu comme par enchantement : D'orothea.

Armistead Maupin talks to Beth Anderson, Audible's publisher, about the adaptation of his novel The Night Listener. The book and the movie, which stars Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Rory Culkin, and Sandra Oh, were inspired by Maupin's real-life friendship with Anthony Godby Johnson, a young man who'd written a harrowing memoir about being abused, but whose very existence soon came into question. In this interview, Maupin reveals how tricky the overlap between fiction and reality can be.