Synopsis
Volume Six in Maupin's TALES OF THE CITY chronicles--the last series of episodes.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1994-01-01 | | Series: | Tales of the City Series, V. 6 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."
--New York Times Book Review A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from Armistead Maupin.
"An old-fashioned pleasure...there's been nothing like it since the heyday of the serial novel 100 years ago...No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run."
--Voice Literary Supplement
"I know I'm not the only one who was up until 2 in the morning with Sure of You, promising myself to stop after just one more chapter."
--New York Times Book Review
"A quietly understated small masterpiece."
--USA Today Visit the Tales of the City website at www.talesofthecity.com
A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is trheir longtime friend, a gay man whose own future nis even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, "Sure of You" could only come from Armistead Maupin.
Industry Reviews
"The books are essentially about forgiveness, acceptance, and love. I'm also fascinated by the huge gulf between the way things appear to be and the way they really are. My characters get into trouble when they stop being honest with each other, but that deceit becomes, invariably, their downfall. I think both those messages--of forgiveness and of the essential folly of deceit--probably come from my being gay. When you're a gay person, it's much easier to observe the gulf between truth and illusion, because you're often a part of creating it. You learn at a very early age to wear disguises. My work is about taking off those disguises."
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