The Days of Anna Madrigal
Tales of the City 9
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4.8 • 46 Ratings
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- £5.99
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Publisher Description
The ninth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
'Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been’ Booklist (starred review)
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Now ninety-two, Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her ‘logical family’ in San Francisco. Some members of that family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert but Anna has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. There she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to some unfinished business she has long avoided.
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
Customer Reviews
Like meeting up with a group of your best friends
A trip to San Francisco prompted the purchase of this book and it is entirely enjoyable to meet up with this group of friends as they face the end of the story.
Prepare to laugh and cry at moments; it is hard to put this book down
Wow can’t wait :)
Ninth and final novel in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series :(
The date appears to have been put back here in the UK - looking forward to the books release -Armistead is in the UK in Feb 14 some venues have sold out but there are 1 or 2 tickets for the Bath venue from Mr B’s bookshop
5 starts because you know is going to be brilliant