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Armistead Maupin Kindle Edition

by Patrick Gale (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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An intimate biography of the gay icon whose Tales of the City changed America’s understanding of LGBT culture during the 1970s and ’80s.

Step into Armistead Maupin’s house, and you will be greeted by a strapping young gardener, a wave of marijuana smoke, and the most gracious host in the world. When he isn’t flitting from protests to orgies, Maupin is a natural storyteller, and San Francisco is his favorite subject. Pull up a chair and prepare to be swept away on a wave of wit, gossip, and the most outrageous sexual anecdotes you’ve ever heard.

His house seems like a scene out of his legendary Tales of the City, and that’s no accident: Every moment of his groundbreaking series was drawn, one way or another, from Maupin’s remarkable life, from a middle-class upbringing in North Carolina to a stint in the navy during Vietnam. Maupin landed in San Francisco just in time to chronicle the gay rights revolution that was sweeping the city and the country as a whole, and from the moment his Tales were first serialized, that city was never the same.

This is an intimate biography, written by Maupin’s longtime friend, Patrick Gale. From his fling with Rock Hudson to the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, Maupin saw it all—and lived to tell the tale.

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“A young British novelist whose gifts and insights are notable. Patrick Gale writes with the understated fluency that is the hallmark of contemporary British fiction, and with the irony that usually accompanies it.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“A clever, original writer with a sharp eye for social comedy and an equally sharp ear for dialogue.” —The Washington Post Book World

“A young British novelist of astonishing originality.” —The Boston Globe

About the Author

Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight. He spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, which his father governed, then grew up in Winchester, before attending Oxford University. He now lives on a farm near Land’s End. One of the United Kingdom’s best-loved novelists, his recent works include A Perfectly Good Man, The Whole Day Through, and the Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller Notes from an Exhibition. His latest novel, A Place Called Winter, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize, the Walter Scott Prize, and the Independent Booksellers’ Novel of the Year award. To find out more about Patrick and his work, visit www.galewarning.org.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01H83R78Y
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (August 30, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 30, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3615 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 189 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #534,177 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #291 in LGBTQ+ Biographies & Memoirs
- #868 in LGBTQ+ Biographies (Books)
- #958 in Biographies & Memoirs of Authors

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Patrick Gale is a keen cellist, gardener and artistic director of the North Cornwall Book Festival. He lives with his husband, the farmer and sculptor, Aidan Hicks (www.aidanhicks.com), on their farm at the far west of Cornwall. In addition to his latest, Mother’s Boy, which is published on March 1 2022, his seventeen novels include Take Nothing With You (2018), which was his fourth Sunday Times bestseller, Rough Music (2000), Notes From an Exhibition (2007), A Perfectly Good Man (2012) and A Place Called Winter (2015). In 2017 his two part drama Man in an Orange Shirt was screened by BBC2 as part of the Gay Britannia season. Continuing to be broadcast regularly around the world, this won the International Emmy for best miniseries and is now in development as a musical. He is currently working on a television adaptation of A Place Called Winter and a stage version of Take Nothing With You. Extracts from the BBC documentary All Families Have Secrets – the Narrative Art of Patrick Gale can be seen on his website www.galewarning.org.

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Albuquerque

If You're A Fan of Armistead Maupin...

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2017

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The paperback version of this book was gifted to me by a friend.

The book give a lot of background information about Armistead Maupin. You can see where events in his life were later woven into the Tales lore as well as The Night Listener.

I purchased the digital copy of this book to keep on my Kindle.

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2014

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Armistead Maupin lived in San Francisco during a time of great awakening, at a time when people were putting words to their feelings. These were the years of the brave people who came out of the closet and publicly announced their sexual preference as gay. Maupin was instrumental in ths movement with his "Tales of the City" series. His biography was like an inside peek at what really happened. Loved it!

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Randall J. Watkins

Phenomenal read.

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016

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Phenomenal read, although it works best if you have read or are at least somewhat familiar with Maupin's books. My only issue was with the typeset. Much too small and for some reason a bit soft making for blurred vision. Despite this difficulty, I highly recommend it. Great job by Gale, and of course, Maupin.

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2019

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Buy this. Only a few pages and I already see I will know him better. And I want to. His books help get me through.

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