The Days of Anna Madrigal: A Novel (Tales of the City)
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (663 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062196278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Foster Corbin said The Final Novel in the Series That Has Meant So Much to So Many. I remember picking up a copy of TALES OF THE CITY way back in 1978 at a local bookstore. It was love at first sight and it has never wavered. Waiting for the next in the series is one of the joys of being alive. Now we have what is being called the last novel in the series THE DAYS OF ANNA MADRIGAL, perhaps the most beloved of all of Armistead Maupin's. "Maupin is one of the very best story tellers from now or ever there has been" according to G. Kent. It's difficult to write much about this story without possibly 'spoiling'. I say story because I think Mr. Maupin is one of the very best story tellers from now or ever there has been. I wonder what it would be like for someone to pick up this book first without beginning with "Tales of the City". Well, it would certainly send you back to the beginning. Five Stars A perfect ending to wonderful series. I loved every page of all nine books.
From Booklist *Starred Review* Alas, this is the ninth and final novel in Maupin’s beloved Tales of the City series, the first three volumes of which were made into a television miniseries starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis, which has now achieved cult status. But let’s not mourn the end of this run of rich, loving novels. Instead, let’s read this tender last one as a celebration of the wonderful characters Maupin created, whose lives have centered on landlady and den-mother Anna Madrigal’s home at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco. While a group of her friends heads off to Burning Man, the wild arts festival held yearly in the Nevada desert, other
With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to unfinished business she has long avoided.. The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin’s bestselling “Tales of the City” series, follows one of modern literature’s most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane—as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past.Now ninety-two, 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 young caretaker Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades.Some members of Anna’s family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert where 60,000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. Anna herself 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