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The ninth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n'Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been’ Booklist (starred review)\n____________________\n\nNow 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.\n\nHurdling 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.

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Un romanzo irriverente e divertentissimo, che esplora in piena libertà le mille sfaccettature della vita con intelligenza e sarcasmo, regalandoci il ritratto di una San Francisco piena di vitalità, cuore pulsante della leggendaria serie Tales of the City di Armistead Maupin.\r\n«Un fenomeno culturale pop che è arrivato a definire un'epoca e l'ethos di San Francisco» - Los Angeles Times\r\n«Un tomanzo dolcissimo e davvero spassoso» - The New York Times\r\n«Barbary Lane è il luogo in cui ci sentiamo accettati. Leggendo queste storie, possiamo tutti provare un senso di nostalgia per una casa che non abbiamo mai avuto» - Tracey Thorn\r\n\r\nSono passati vent'anni da quando Mary Ann Singleton ha lasciato marito e figlia a San Francisco per inseguire il sogno di una carriera televisiva a New York. Ora, però, alcuni tragici eventi l'hanno riportata nella città della sua giovinezza, al 28 di Barbary Lane, dove ancora vive il suo più vecchio amico, il giardiniere Michael “Mouse” Tolliver, felicemente accasato con un uomo molto più giovane. A cinquantasette anni, Mary Ann si rifugia nella casa della coppia e fa il punto sugli errori che ha collezionato fino a quel momento. Presto, grazie a Facebook e a qualche vecchio amico, comincia a riprendere i contatti con la sua vecchia vita. Ma San Francisco è cambiata, ed è cambiata anche lei, che ora ha bisogno di ritrovare la sua casa, di scegliere la sua vera famiglia. Finché il passato non torna a tormentarla in un modo che non avrebbe mai immaginato. Un caleidoscopio di personaggi indimenticabili, da Shawna, la figliastra di Mary Ann diventata una celebre sex blogger, a Jake Greenleaf, l'assistente transgender di Michael, fino all'infaticabile Anna Madrigal, l'ex padrona di casa di Mary Ann al 28 di Barbary Lane.

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San Francisco 1976. La provinciale Mary Ann Singleton, che ha lasciato la famiglia e una vita noiosa per trasferirsi nella città più vitale e gaudente d'America, trova casa nel condominio al numero 28 di Barbary Lane. Qui, sotto l'ala protettiva della signora Madrigal, infaticabile padrona di casa e coltivatrice di marijuana in cortile, vive, si agita fra jet set e bassifondi, infrange le barriere sociali e sessuali, ama, si strugge e fa di tutto per godersi la vita.

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Maybe 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, singer, iconoclast and former Guinness Book of Records holder as the world's shortest woman. \n\nAll of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- 'you can die of encouragement'. Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and Bar Mitzvahs as she waits for the miracle that will finally make her a star. \n\nIn a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles -- from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs and human ignorance. Then one day a lanky piano player saunters into Cady's life, unleashing heady new emotions, and she finds herself going for broke, shooting the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed. \n\nHer accomplice in the venture is her best friend, Jeff, a gay waiter who sees Cady's struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet. As clear-eyed as it is charming, Maybe the Moon is a modern parable about the mythology of the movies and the toll it exacts from it participants on both sides of the screen. It is a work that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit from a perspective rarely found in literature.

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The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n‘Some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read’ Guardian\n____________________\n\nTranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world’s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin’s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship and sexual nostalgia.\n\nHurdling 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 1980s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

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The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, is an uproariously moving novel and an indelible portrait of cultural change from the seventies.\n\nNamed as one of the BBC’s 100 Most Inspiring Novels, a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick and Britain’s favourite gay/lesbian novel from The Big Gay Read\n____________________\n\nOriginally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.\n\nAmong the cast of this ground-breaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.\n\nHurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

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The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n'Perhaps the most sublime piece of popular literature America has ever produced’ Salon\n____________________\n\nA touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh starts, the City by the Bay welcomes back Mary Ann Singleton, the beloved Tales of the City heroine who started it all. A new chapter begins in the lives of both Mary Ann and Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver when she returns to San Francisco to rejoin her oldest friend after years in New York City… the reunion that fans of Maupin’s beloved Tales of the City series have been awaiting for years.\n\nHurdling 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.

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The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n'Tender-hearted and frolicsome… A tale of long-lost friends and unrealised dreams, of fear and regret, of penance and redemption, and of the unshakeable sense that this world we love, this life we live, this drama on which we all play, does indeed go by much too fast’ New York Times\n____________________\n\nNearly two decades after ending his iconic Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers—for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary... and filled with the everyday miracles of living.\n\nHurdling 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.

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____________________\n\nNow a Netflix series starring Elliot Page and Laura Linney . . .\n\n'San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin' Independent\n__________________\n\nIn this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, a fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. \n\nWistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is a triumphant finale to one of the most addictively entertaining series of novels ever written.

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La venticinquenne Mary Ann Singleton decide di abbandonare la sonnolenta e noiosa Cleveland e le soffocanti attenzioni dei genitori per trasferirsi a San Francisco, la libera e disinibita città-simbolo degli anni Settanta. Mary Ann trova un appartamento al 28 di Barbary Lane, in un condominio popolato da personaggi bizzarri, a partire dalla padrona di casa, affittacamere e coltivatrice di marijuana. Tra crisi esistenziali, problemi di cuore, droghe più o meno leggere e sperimentazioni sessuali senza limiti di genere, l'eroina dei racconti di San Francisco si ritrova coinvolta in una girandola di avventure urbane dai colori psichedelici, a rincorrere trasgressioni e piaceri che solo la metropoli californiana è in grado di offrire. Pubblicati sul \"San Francisco Chronicle\" a partire dal 1976, questi racconti sono un classico della letteratura americana da oltre trent'anni.

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Il decimo – e lungamente atteso – romanzo del ciclo de “I racconti di San Francisco”, ha per protagonista Mona Ramsey, la figlia di Anna Madrigal (la leggendaria proprietaria della casa al numero 28 di Barbary Lane, a San Francisco). Fresca vedova di un lord inglese gay, Teddy Roughton, che Mona aveva sposato per permettergli di avere la cittadinanza americana e trasferirsi a San Francisco, si ritrova a vivere, insieme al figlio adottivo Wilfred, nella vasta e antica tenuta di famiglia (Casa Easley), nelle Cotswolds, tra Bristol e Oxford. Nonostante il titolo di Lady, Mona è rimasta una donna libera e intraprendente, capace di mettere in discussione i luoghi comuni e i pregiudizi della contea inglese, e per questo da subito oggetto di pettegolezzi (ha una relazione con la direttrice delle poste). Ma non sono le voci e le malignità della provincia inglese a preoccuparla, bensì le ingenti spese per la manutenzione della tenuta, tanto da essere costretta ad affittare alcune stanze ai turisti che sognano di vivere delle vacanze romantiche in una antica magione. Tra i turisti coinvolti, nella primavera del 1993, è presente anche una coppia di americani originari del North Carolina. All’apparenza persone semplici e affiatate, in realtà custodi di un segreto. E dopo sole poche ore, e uno sgradevole episodio, Rhonda, la signora americana, chiede aiuto a Mona e a Wilfred per fuggire dal marito. A quel punto giungono a Casa Easley anche Anna Madrigal e Michael Tolliver, a complicare la vicenda in una serie di spassosi, ma anche drammatici, equivoci, innamoramenti, e dolorose riflessioni. Una commedia ironica, e a tratti amara, ricca di intelligenza e di ottimismo.

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The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n‘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\n____________________\n\nWhen an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbour, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.\n\nHurdling 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 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

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The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n‘Entertains, illuminates… A cultural touchstone that has enlarged our understanding of the varieties of human behavior’ Washington Post\n____________________\n\nThe tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cosy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgänger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favourite gynaecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all—without ever leaving home.\n\nHurdling 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 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

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The ninth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n'Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been’ Booklist (starred review)\n____________________\n\nNow 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.\n\nHurdling 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.

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The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n'Perhaps the most sublime piece of popular literature America has ever produced’ Salon\n____________________\n\nA touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh starts, the City by the Bay welcomes back Mary Ann Singleton, the beloved Tales of the City heroine who started it all. A new chapter begins in the lives of both Mary Ann and Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver when she returns to San Francisco to rejoin her oldest friend after years in New York City… the reunion that fans of Maupin’s beloved Tales of the City series have been awaiting for years.\n\nHurdling 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.

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A CLASSIC OF LGBTQ LITERATURE THAT HAS BECOME A CULTSENSATION! \n\nSan Francisco, late 1970s. \n\nAt 28 BarbaryLane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She welcomes people who have nowhereelse to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness andher superb marijuana crop. \n\nEnter Mary Ann Singleton, a prudish, naïve,young woman who escaped her dull Ohio hometown for San Francisco. She settles inwith her other fellow tenants: Michael “Mouse,” a personable younggay man, Brian Hawkins, an incorrigible Don Juan, and Mona Ramsey, a younghippyish bisexual. \n\nLittle does the group know that they will soonform a dear family together. This is the beginning of a humorous, heartfeltsaga, between the summer of love and the appearance of AIDS, in the city ofsexual freedom! \n\nTHE HEROES OF THISENCHANTING GROUP HAVE BEEN ENJOYED BY MILLIONS OF READERS WORLDWIDE! The novelshave been translated into 10 languages and sold over 6 million copies. The titlehas been adapted on TV (BBC), Limited Series (Netflix), Theater...and now ingraphic novel form for the first time.

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The third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n‘An enormously talented writer… 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\n____________________\n\nThe calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchor-woman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park.\n\nHurdling 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 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

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Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years when a publisher sends him proofs of a remarkable book: the memoir of a sickly thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his parents.\n\nNow living with his adoptive mother, Donna, Pete Lomax is not only a brave and gifted diarist but a devoted listener of Noone's show. When Noone phones the boy to offer encouragement, it soon becomes clear that Pete sees in this heartsick, middle-aged storyteller the loving father he's always wanted. Thus begins an extraordinary friendship that grows deeper only as the boy's health deteriorates, freeing Noone to unlock his innermost feelings.\n\nThen, out of the blue, troubling new questions arise, exploding Noone's comfortable assumptions and causing his ordered existence to spin wildly out of control. As he walks a vertiginous line between truth and illusion, he is finally forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic.\n\nAs complex and hypnotically engrossing as the best of mysteries, The Night Listener is an astonishing tour de force that moves and challenges Maupin's readers as never before.

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The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.\n\n‘Maupin's adeptness at fluid dialogue, his flair for shaping characters who thread the needle between pop archetypes and singular human beings… are all on display’ New York Times\n____________________\n\nA fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is Armistead Maupin’s addictively entertaining observation on family, friendship and every relationship in between.\n\nHurdling 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 1980s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

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Una Vera Signora - Maupin Armistead - Playground

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EAN: 9788817001069
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I Racconti Di San Francisco-Tales Of The City - Maupin Armistead - Bur Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli

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THE AERODYNAMICS OF PORK is an irresistible novel of love, music and comedy -\n\n'A master storyteller' Independent on Sunday\n\n'Gale's concoction is irresistible: modern relationships with period charm' Armistead Maupin\n\nSeth, a musical prodigy on the eve of his sixteenth birthday, is obsessed with sex and with the men he might meet, as well as with his strange family - his arch mother, his beautiful sister, and his damaged, distant father. \n\nMo, a policewoman struggling with moral dilemmas and her sexuality in the violent, bigoted police force of the 1980s, wants only to find romance. \n\nIn this haunting tale of self discovery and hidden identities, Mo and Seth will connect to face unexpected truths about themselves, and those they have chosen to love.

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Patrick Gale's THE FACTS OF LIFE is a mesmerising, epic yet intimate novel of love, music and the life events that stay with us forever - perfect for any reader of Armistead Maupin, or E M Forster\n\n'Absorbing . . . deftly characterised, deeply involving and relevant' The Times\n\nGerman composer Edward Pepper escapes to England just before the war begins in earnest. Struck with TB, he is recuperating in hospital when he meets Sally, a young doctor who has battled her way through medical school, despite the opposition of her parents. They fall in love and marry, settling in the fenlands of East Anglia. Years later, Edward watches as his grandchildren trip up against life and death, and realises that patterns can repeat themselves, bringing both pain and unexpected discovery.

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`On the stage, Jake Shears is a triumphant explosion of unembarrassed carnality and charm. On the page, he's very much the same. Boys Keep Swinging is one courageous joyride of a memoir. It should be illegal for rock stars to write so beautifully.'\n- Armistead Maupin\n\n`The purpose of my life is to entertain. It's a constant feedback loop.'\nBefore becoming lead singer in the fabulous Scissor Sisters, Jake Shears was Jason Sellards, just a kid with an unfathomable imagination and a love of He-Man dolls. Splitting life between Arizona and the Pacific West Coast, his childhood was marked by school bullies and the terror of the rise and misunderstanding surrounding the AIDS virus. With changes in age and geography Shears gradually found a sense of belonging - first in Seattle, then in the street life and lights of New York City in the late 90s where, with friends and musicians also thirsting for freedom and the stage, he would form Scissor Sisters and go on to sell out venues worldwide.\n\nThis is a wide-eyed and determined coming-of-age story from a world famous LGBTQ+ icon, but its heartbeat is Shears' friendship with Mary Hanlon, who he met via The Edge, a prehistoric chatroom, when he was 15 and she was 21. For years Shears lived in New York with a landline for which only Mary knew the number. Although long-distance, self-absorption and changing circumstances would take their toll on the friendship, this was the safe-house that sheltered a pair of misfits from the unthinking prejudices of a fearful world, a haven to which both would always return, and for which Shears wrote the song 'Mary'.

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THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'\n\nAN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION *****\n\n'Neil Gaiman's entire body of work is a feat of elegant sorcery. He writes with such assurance and originality that the reader has no choice but to surrender to a waking dream' ARMISTEAD MAUPIN\n\n'Some books just swallow you up, heart and soul' JOANNE HARRIS\n\n'Summons both the powerlessness and wonder of childhood, and the complicated landscape of memory and forgetting' GUARDIAN\n\n---\n\n'My favourite response to this book is when people say, 'My childhood was nothing like that - and it was as if I was reading about me' NEIL GAIMAN\n\n---\n\nThis is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane:\n\nA dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse.\nAn ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.\nA beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.\nAnd dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed.\n\nThey are memories hard to believe, waiting at the edges of things. The recollections of a man who thought he was lost but is now, perhaps, remembering a time when he was saved . . .\n\nNEIL GAIMAN.\nWITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.\n\n---\n\n**Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman on creating the world of the novel**

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EAN: 9780008343989
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.'\n THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them.\n\n\n From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady Phyll on Moud Goba; Tan France on the Queer Eye cast to Mae Martin on Tim Curry, today's queer heroes write about the icons that provided a creative inspiration to them. Other contributors include Amelia Abraham, Paula Akpan, Courtney Act, Munroe Bergdorf, Mykki Blanco, Joseph Cassara, David Furnish, Paul Flynn, Paris Lees, Juliet Jacques, Gus Kenworthy, Freddy McConnell, Paul Mendez, Mark Moore, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hanne Gaby Odiele and Matthew Todd. Each essay is accompanied by exclusive, bespoke illustrations by queer or ally artists, to create a truly beautiful celebration of queer culture.\n\n\n Based on the popular website QueerBible.com, founded by model and activist Jack Guinness, this timely collection, edited by him, continues his mission - to create a space dedicated to the celebration of queer history.\n\n\n The Queer Bible is a love letter to the LGBTQI+ community and its allies.

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