Oh wow. WOW. Perfect. I can't wait to read this! I am so excited and it sounds like a fun return to some of the dramatic earlier plotlines Mary Ann got herself into. THANK YOU ARMISTEAD!!! Hope you come to Toronto to promote this one. :)
So happy to see this next book coming out. Mary Ann has always been my favorite charector in the series. M.T.L.'s was a great read, but I really was sad that there wasn't more of Mary Ann in it. Sort of a mini-let down. I can't wait until this new book it released! ! !
Wow! This is very exciting. I remember reading the first "Tales" book in 1994 in my first year at University, it also happened to be the year I came out of the Closet.
Love all the "Tales" Characters....and for Mary Ann Singleton to be back in the fold is fabulous!!
"An affirmation of growing older and wiser that gives hope to those trying to appreciate what they have while staying true to themselves, this novel is a graceful coda to the series. Recommended." Library Journal
"[G]reat fun to read. Maupin is a master at sustained and sustaining comic turns." New York Times
"Maupin's writing style is both breezy and humorous, which makes the sadder moments all the more poignant." Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Tales of the City Reviews
"An old fashioned pleasure... there's been nothing like it since the heyday of the serial novel 100 years ago... Tearing through [the tales] one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run." - Walter Kendrick, Village Voice Literary Supplement
"A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh...It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly." - Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement
An enormously talented writer—witty but always sympathetic, generous in showing us the secrets of his heart...By writing about what's seemingly different Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously painfully true for all of us. - Amy Tan
"The Night Listener" Reviews
"A page-turner. . .holds our interest in a vise grip." - San Francisco Chronicle
. . . a solid page turner . . . a mystery studded with elegant twists and turns. In the end, the reader is captivated and won't be able to get on with things until The Night Listener is wolfed down whole. -New York Times Book Review - Karen Karbo
"Maybe The Moon" Reviews
"Armistead Maupin is a first rate-world-class novelist, creating characters so vivid, complicated, tender, and true as to seem utterly timeless. . . .I'm willing to bet that fifty years from now Maupin's work will be read for its detailed descriptions of late twentieth century America, its rollicking humor and kind heart, its Chekovian compassion, its Wildean wit, its intricate. . .sometimes unbelievablle but always utterly irresistible plotlines." - Stephen McCauley
One of the ten best books of the year." -Entertainment Weekly
"Highly funny and deeply poignant. . .Maupin sounds the feminine side of his psyche with a heartfelt resonance that few male writers ever accomplish." -- Judith Wynn, Boston Herald
I am so happy to find out there is another Tales book coming!
ReplyDeleteOh wow. WOW. Perfect. I can't wait to read this! I am so excited and it sounds like a fun return to some of the dramatic earlier plotlines Mary Ann got herself into. THANK YOU ARMISTEAD!!! Hope you come to Toronto to promote this one. :)
ReplyDeleteSo happy to see this next book coming out. Mary Ann has always been my favorite charector in the series. M.T.L.'s was a great read, but I really was sad that there wasn't more of Mary Ann in it. Sort of a mini-let down. I can't wait until this new book it released! ! !
ReplyDeleteIt's great news, it's just time for it. The time was too long without another book of this fantastic novel.
ReplyDeleteWahoo!
Mary Ann's appearance at the end of MTL raised more questions than it answered. Now we will learn the answers.
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteThis is very exciting. I remember reading the first "Tales" book in 1994 in my first year at University, it also happened to be the year I came out of the Closet.
Love all the "Tales" Characters....and for Mary Ann Singleton to be back in the fold is fabulous!!
Cheers Andrew (Sydney, AUS) xxoo