Armistead Maupin Libros Populares
Armistead Maupin Biografía y Hechos
Armistead Jones Maupin Jr. (Washington D. C., 13 de mayo de 1944) es un novelista estadounidense cuya obra más famosa es la saga de cuentos Historias de San Francisco. Carrera Nació en Washington y se crio en la ciudad de Raleigh (Carolina del Norte). Cursó estudios en la Universidad de Carolina del Norte, donde egresó en 1966. Sirvió en la Guerra de Vietnam entre 1967 y 1970, como oficial de comunicaciones y miembro de la patrulla fluvial. Como periodista, entre 1970 y 1971 trabajó en el diario News and Courier, de Charleston (Carolina del Sur). También se desempeñó en la oficina de Associated Press de San Francisco. Tuvo otros empleos hasta que en 1976 comienza a publicar Historias de San Francisco, que salían junto al diario San Francisco Chronicle. Los relatos describen la vida en la Costa Oeste, basándose en un grupo de amigos heterosexuales y homosexuales. En cuanto a su vida privada, el escritor declaró públicamente su homosexualidad en 1974. Estuvo en pareja con Terry Anderson, activista por los derechos LGBT (Maupin también ha realizado actividades en esta área) y desde febrero del 2007 está casado con Christopher Turner, fotógrafo y productor de sitios web. Obra Historias de San Francisco 1978 Historias de San Francisco (Traducción de Víctor Conill) 1980 Nuevas historias de San Francisco (Traducción de Javier Lacruz) 1982 Más historias de San Francisco (Traducción de Javier Lacruz) 1984 Babycakes 1987 Significant Others 1989 Sure of You 2007 Michael Tolliver Lives 2010 Mary Ann in Autumn 2014 The Days of Anna Madrigal Otros libros 1990 28 Barbary Lane 1991 Back to Barbary Lane 1992 Maybe the Moon 2000 El oyente nocturno (Traducción de Matuca Fernández de Villavicencio) 2016 Goodbye Barbary Lane 2017 Logical Family: A Memoir Premios 2007 Premio Barbary Coast 2006 Premio Best Gay Read, otorgado por el Big Gay Read Literature Festival 2001 Premio al libro Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual 1999 Premio Capital Enlaces externos Sitio web oficial Biografía en Random House Australia Archivado el 27 de marzo de 2016 en Wayback Machine. Entrevista con Ramona Koval de septiembre de 2007. Armistead Maupin en Internet Movie Database (en inglés). Biografía en GLBTQ.com Entrevista en bigfib.com. Descubre los libros populares de Armistead Maupin. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Armistead Maupin
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Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe
Evan JamesNamed one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly, “a hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a family’s insanely dramatic summer at their new island home” (Cosmo...
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Dr.Reynard's Experiment
Robert BlackThe year is 1885, and Dr Reynard, a brilliant young surgeon, is desperate for excitement. A chance meeting with Lord Spearman opens up a whole new world of sexual adventure. Swept ...
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Comes the Night
Hollis Hampton-JonesMeade is nineteen and living in Paris with her twin brother, Ben Ho, far from their privileged upbringing in Nashville, Tennessee. Hers is a restless quest of balancing addictions:...
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Le Mariage
Diane JohnsonClara Holly is a former actress, beautiful, rich, and 'well married, far from her Oregon beginnings' to the renowned but reclusive film director Serge Clay. AnneSophie is a...
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A Widow For One Year
John Irving'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'This is the story...
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Odd-Shaped Balls
John ScallyRugby is not a game for those who think that centres are what you find in a box of Black Magic or who confuse Jonah Lomu with Joanna Lumley. At the same time, it is not a game for ...
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Loaded
Christos TsiolkasDiscover the explosive first novel from the author of The Slap Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something anything to take him away from his aimless existence...
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Anges batailleurs
Christopher Bram« La révolution gay fut d’abord et avant tout une révolution littéraire. » Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, une nouvelle génération d’écrivains américains s’es...
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Arrivals & Departures
Leslie ThomasFresh from Los Angeles, Mrs Pearl Collingwood and her daughter Rona arrive in the frenzied noman'sland of Heathrow airport: from the nearby village of Bedmansworth, Edward Rich...
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Maestro
Peter SlaterA young Spanish cello player, Ramon, journeys to the castle of master cellist Ernesto Cavello in the hope of private tuition from the great musician. Ramon's own music is technical...
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Love Me Tender
Jane FeaverThere is more going on in the village of Buckleigh than meets the eye and its sense of community is often as much a curse as a blessing. While Barrie, the local mayor, is driven in...
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Blandings: Problems With Drink
P.G. WodehouseEPISODE 6 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS GALAHAD AT BLANDINGSWith the arrival of sophisticated widow, Dap...
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Landfall
Helen GordonFor fans of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, Landfall is a cleareyed, witty and warm debut novel by former Granta editor Helen Gordon, that marks the arrival of a major new...
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Until Tomorrow
Sheila WalshRyan's Bakery is at the hub of Liverpool life in the late thirties: its driving force, Kathleen, who loves her quiet husband, Michael, and her family, and is fiercely ambitious for...
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Let There Be Lite
Rupert MorganOn a planet remarkably similar to our own, in the voraciously capitalist United States of Atlantis, the most powerful (i.e. richest) man in the world is media and IT tycoon John Lo...
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Falling Into Place
Linda TaylorWhen Ginny became pregnant as an undergraduate years ago she never regretted her decision to leave university and raise her daughter as a single mum. Now, though, with nineteenyear...
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Hard Time
Robert BlackThree men are committed to Her Majesty's Prison Cairncrow on the same day. There's Paul a young, tough innercity robber. Simon, by contrast, is gentle, feminine, and obvio...
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Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments
Hema SukumarA Red magazine book of 2023'The most charming, utterly lovely story I've read in ages... this is one of my books of the year' RED 'This joyous novel is a feast for the senses, as w...
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The Berlin Stories
Christopher IsherwoodA classic of 20thcentury fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscarwinning film Cabaret. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two asto...
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The Concert Ticket
Olga GrushinOn any given morning, on the street corners of a Russian city, little kiosks suddenly appear. As soon as their shutters open, a queue forms, men and women lining up in the hope of ...
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The World in the Evening
Christopher IsherwoodAt a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. The...
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Kicked into Touch
Fred EyreFred Eyre's sporting life began full of promise when he became Manchester City's firstever apprentice. He never made their first team. In fact, he seldom made anyone's first team. ...
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The Folding Star
Alan Hollinghurst'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery...The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' Evening StandardEdward Manners thirty three an...
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Just By Looking at Him
Ryan O'Connell'A horny romp that makes you think, laugh, and feel. O'Connell is one of my favourite writers' MONICA HEISEY, author of Really Good, Actually'A very funny novel about falling for a...
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Husbands and Lies
Susy McPheeThere are some people you'd do anything for...For Fran that list would include her husband, Max, her daughter, and her best friend, Alison. Only Alison is now desperately ill and s...
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Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Andrew Collins'Higher education comes at exactly the right time: in the twilight of your teens, you're just starting to coagulate as a human being, to pull away from parental influence and find ...
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Two Red Shoes
Vivien KellyWhen Nicholas was four years old his mother took him by the hand and led him away from his father, his brother and his Ukrainian home, across the Carpathian mountains, through the ...
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Intelligent and Loyal
Jilly Cooper OBEA celebration of the mongrel.The mongrel occupies a special place in our hearts and homes. Jilly Cooper collected stories from hundreds of owners to write this engaging and affecti...
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The Nightowl's Dissection
William PeskettWilliam Peskett belongs to the brilliant generation of young poets from Northen Ireland who broke through in the 1970s. The intent observation and delicate structure of his poems a...
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Anthony Powell
Hilary Spurling'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the YearThe longawaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographersAnthony Powell: the literary geni...
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Tree Surgery for Beginners
Patrick GaleFrom the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER, TREE SURGERY FOR BEGINNERS is a funny, elegant and eclectic novel of love, lies and the secrets we live with 'A very funny, of...
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The Last Ealing Comedy
Matthew BaylisAlastair Strange is having trouble. His girlfriend Martha, tired of late night telly and takeaway pizzas, has reinvented herself as the real estate princess of Putney. His dream j...
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Dim Wit
Rosemarie Jarski'They misunderestimated me' George W. Bush Einstein said only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity. So in deference to the dumbing down of our culture, comes ...
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Mary Ann in Autumn
Armistead MaupinInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityThe eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco s...
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Skin And Bone
Gareth CreerArtie lives in Slipp a tawdry, urban setting, a mixture of big estates and what's left of the old town. When his father died, he inherited the family fishmongers on the High Stre...
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Whizz for Atomms
Geoffrey WillansWith one mad yell the mob, armed with stumps and bits torn from desks, surge away down the pasage, trampling the masters under foot. A buket of water fall on GRIMES and the term en...
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The Fourth Angel
Robin HunterA thoughtful and civilised man shouldn't have to make this choice.Until the day his wife and children are gunned down by terrorists, Simon Quarry knows what kind of man he is.When ...
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Faith and Hope Go Shopping/Hello, Goodbye (Storycuts)
Joanne HarrisIn 'Faith and Hope Go Shopping', Faith has spent twenty years in a wheelchair. Together with her blind friend Hope, she lives in a nursing home. Their favourite carer calls them B...
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Fifty Years Of Hancock's Half Hour
Richard WebberMany people consider Tony Hancock to be the finest comic actor of them all. November 2004 sees the 50th anniversary of his bestloved work, Hancock's HalfHour, which began as a radi...
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Love Me
Gemma WeekesA first love shouldn't bloom so fierce, you know? It shouldn't be like a fist forever clutched around the heart muscle... I didn't realise how bad I had it until he reappeared... S...
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Mona of the Manor
Armistead Maupin“Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers.”Neil Gaiman Set in the early 1990s, the longawaited tenth novel in Armistead Maupin’s beloved and enduring Tales of the City s...
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Maybe the Moon
Armistead MaupinMaybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth Hollywood actress, sing...
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Not Quite a Fairytale
Cee LiddyFor years, Evelyn, the hopeful realist, and John, the hopeless romantic, entertained each other with tales of one disastrous love affair after another. Then they fell out.From her ...
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The Gobbler
Adrian EdmondsonJulian Mann, the hard drinking, preening, and sexually provocative star of the TV sitcome Richard the Nerd, feels caught on the horns of a dilemma: should he be concentrating on hi...
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The Age Of Gold
H W BrandsThe discovery of gold in California in 1848 sparked a frenzy that shook the world. People swarmed to the gold fields from as far as China and Australia. They came by ship and overl...
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Cash
Rolling StoneJohnny Cash is a giant of American music. Since its inception in the late 60s, Rolling Stone magazine has followed Cash's career, writing about him in settings ranging from San Que...
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Customs Of The Country
Rupert ThomasThe year is 1924. James Cardell has just left school and is preparing for Oxford. However, before the strict routine of university life begins, he is allowed to spend the summer ho...
