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Sicher, du?
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. 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 could only come from Armistead Maupin.
Gemeinsame Themen: LGBTQ novels, San Francisco, City and town life, California
Weitere Geschichten aus der Stadt
Tales of the City is a series of novels by Armistead Maupin.
Gemeinsame Themen: LGBTQ novels, San Francisco, City and town life, California
Michael Tolliver lebt
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contem-porary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his ground-breaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the fifty-five-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice.Having survived…
Gemeinsame Themen: LGBTQ novels, San Francisco, City and town life, American literature
Mehr Stadtgeschichten
Interlinking tales based around the lives of a San Francisco household.
Gemeinsame Themen: San Francisco, City and town life, California, American literature
Frag den Staub
Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel. While basking in the glory of having had a single short story published in a small magazine, he meets local waitress Camilla Lopez and they embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship/ Slowly, but inexorably, it descends into the realms of madness. Ask the Dust is one of the truly great, yet unsung, American novels of…
Gemeinsame Themen: Los angeles, California
Der Regenmantel des Affen
When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.
Gemeinsame Themen: Los angeles, California
Das hohe Fenster
Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up…
Gemeinsame Themen: Los angeles, California