Now that, my friends, is what we in the business call a wild ride. Closure-the most important attribute for a finale for an American-is reached! PS: I recommend the new limited series on Netflix.
Ultimately, "Tales" offers entertainment in dollops, and informs the reader about age-old queries, like are Michael and Mona prototypes for 90's favorite fag-faghag TV couple Jack & Karen? Are there actual hetero bathhouses? What is a c***ring (heteros, take note )? Tales include hetero/homo sexual prowlers, nifty ways to pay the rent, and ever-clever and -ironic plot twists in this sweet escape.Īnd the immoral sinners are, ooh very, very CHARMING. I insist that for me, not ultra-Gay icon Michael Tolliver but Anna Madrigal takes the "Miss Congeniality" crown. There are enough characters to satisfy most of the reader's wants, and to alternate his/her attentions AND affections. It's about the bummer of losing hippie-hood & the "anguish in Bohemia." In one word: Awesome! And what else? Authentic pluses include the kitschyness inherent in a Pedro Almodovar comedy, and even some of the picaresque qualities of my all-time fave, "Confederacy of Dunces." It is about this enthusiastic selection of promiscuous pre-80's San Franners. It is concise, like "Vile Bodies" and perhaps in that same realm of Evelyn Waugh-type social satire. It is uproarious and uber-funny! It stars the cute Mary Ann Singleton (think a more modern Holly Golightly-but less of a prostitute) & a vibrant array of costars. What did I do between finishing this novel and writing its review? I ordered "More Tales of the City" & "Further Tales of the City" on ebay- I'm THAT invested/confident that they'll match this one! Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner. Tales will be directed by Jason Moore ( Avenue Q and Shrek). He is currently writing a musical version of Tales of the City with Jason Sellards (aka Jake Shears) and John Garden (aka JJ) of the disco and glam rock-inspired pop group Scissor Sisters.
The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Three miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. In 1976 he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maupin worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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