More Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

Harper & Row, 1980 - Fiction - 246 pages

The internationally beloved classic comes to life in a Showtime miniseries.

Few Works of Fiction Have Blazed a Trail Through popular culture like Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series. Since its publication as a daily newspaper serial in 1976, Maupin's incisive comedy of manners has expanded into six bestselling novels, the first of which became a highly acclaimed television miniseries starring Oscar-winner Olympia Dukakis as the irrepressible Anna Madrigal, doyenne of 28 Barbary Lane.

Now More Tales of the City is becoming a Showtime miniseries, once again starring Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, and Thomas Gibson, as well as exciting new cast-members, including Swoosie Kurtz and Ed Asner. It will be broadcast in June 1998.

HarperFlamingo is delighted to announce the publication of two new editions of More Tales of the City to tie in with this broadcast. The first, packaged in the series format, will allow readers to collect the entire Maupin library in a uniform look. The second features a special cover to tie in with the Showtime series and an eight-page photo insert that will delight Maupin's longtime devotees and introduce a whole new audience to this American classic.

"Remarkable, delectible, addictive". -- New York Times Book Review

"There's been nothing like it since the heyday of the serial novel 100 years ago". -- Walter Kendrick, Voice Leterary Supplement

About the author

Armistead Maupin was born in Washington D.C. on May 13, 1944. He received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. He worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. In 1976, he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. The series describes a group of characters that live together in a boarding house in San Francisco. Eventually, these Tales were collected into a series of six novels. In 1993, the British Broadcasting Company adapted them for a television series that aired on PBS in 1994. His other works include Maybe the Moon, Michael Tolliver Lives, and The Days of Anna Madrigal. The Night Listener was adapted into a movie starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette.

Bibliographic information

• Title: More Tales of the City; Colophon books; Harper colophon books; Volume 2 of Tales of the city series, Armistead Maupin; Wilensky-Ritzenhein Gay Book Collection
• Author: Armistead Maupin
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Harper & Row, 1980
• ISBN: 0060907266, 9780060907266
• Length: 246 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / General; Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Gay