The Complete Tales of the City Volume One. Inc: Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City

Maupin, Armistead

ISBN 10: 0701134291 / ISBN 13: 9780701134297

Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 1993

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First collected edition, first impression with full number line. Not ex library but a somewhat worn and much read volume. Some edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some overall wear and creasing to largely white jacket, corners bruised, grubby fingerprints to page fore edges, contents shaken, some lean, price clipped, gift inscription to ffep, internally clean, overall a good reading copy only. 755pp. Published to mark the first of the tv series, broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993, starring Laura Linney as Mary Ann Singleton, Olympia Dukakis as Anna Madrigal, and Barbara Garrick as DeDe Halcyon-Day. Quite scarce in this first impression, even in this worn condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Tales of the City Volume One. Inc: Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus / Random House, London
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701134291
• ISBN 13: 9780701134297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jacket after Channel 4 of Olympia Dukakis as Mrs. Madrigal
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Poor
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

"These novels are as difficult to put down as a dish of pistachios. The reader starts playing the old childhood game of 'Just one more chapter and I'll turn out the lights,' only to look up and discover it's after midnight." -- Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times Book Review Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels--the first three of which are collected in the is omnibus edition--have earned a unique niche in American literature, not only as matchless entertainment, but as indelible documents of cultural change in the seventies and eighties.When originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City (1978), More Tales of the City (1980) and Futher Tales of the City (1982) afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.Among the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brain Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through mail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.With a foreword by the author.