Mona of the Manor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mona of the Manor write by Armistead Maupin. This book was released on 2024-03-05. Mona of the Manor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mona of the Manor
Mona of the Manor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mona of the Manor write by Armistead Maupin. This book was released on 2024-03-07. Mona of the Manor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga. ____________________ When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa--allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfil his wildest dreams--she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, a romantic country manor in the UK. Now, with her adopted son, Wilfred, Mona has opened Easley's doors to paying guests to keep her inherited English manor afloat. As they welcome a married American couple to Easley, Mona and Wilfred discover their new guests' terrible secret. Instead of focussing on the imminent arrival of old friend Michael Tolliver and matriarch Anna Madrigal, Mona will need to use her considerable charm, willpower and wiles to set things right before Easley's historic Midsummer ceremony. 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 1980s San Francisco and beyond. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
Maybe the Moon
Maybe the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maybe the Moon write by Armistead Maupin. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Maybe the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Guiness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman. All 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 bat mitzvahs as she waits for the miracle that will finally make her a star. In 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. Her 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.
More Tales of the City
More Tales of the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Tales of the City write by Armistead Maupin. This book was released on 2012-01-31. More Tales of the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy 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 favorite gynecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all—without ever leaving home.
Babycakes
Babycakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Babycakes write by Armistead Maupin. This book was released on 2012-01-31. Babycakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. When 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 neighbor, 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.
