Sure Of You: Tales Of The City 6 Maupin, Armistead

Author: Maupin, Armistead

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Revised ed.

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 19-06-2007

Part Number: 9780552998819

Details: Product Description


____________________Soon to be a Netflix series starring Ellen Page and Laura Linney . . . 'San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin' Independent__________________In this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, 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. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is a triumphant finale to one of the most addictively entertaining series of novels ever written.


Review


Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials...it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling ―
Literary Review

A consummate entertainer...It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly ―
Times Literary Supplement

San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin ―
Independent

I know I was not the only one who was up until two in the morning, promising myself to stop after just one chapter -- David Feinberg ―
The New York Times Book Review

Armistead Maupin's acclaim is richly deserved. He uses suspense, mystery and coincidence far more inventively than the more typical novelist -- Jonathan Coe ―
Guardian


About the Author


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

EAN: 9780552998819

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English