Armistead Maupin - 'Logical Family' (Signing Line Ticket event)
He may best known for his San Franciso-based Tales of the City novels, but Armistead Maupin grew up in Raleigh. He returns on Friday, October 6, at 7 pm with his memoir, Logical Family. Across nine novels and four decades, the beloved characters of Barbary Lane carved out their lives, creating and re-creating their 'family'. In Logical Family, Armistead shares his journey from the conservative South, through service in Vietnam, and life in the heyday of '70s San Francisco, in search of the family he was meant to be part of.
"A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America's finest storytellers, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us."--Neil Gaiman
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Signing line ticket event: Receive a ticket for the after-program signing line with the QRB purchase of Logical Family. The earlier the book is purchased, the earlier the line position ticket. Those without tickets may join the line after ticket holders.
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"A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers."—Neil Gaiman
"I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read."—Mary Karr
The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels—the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume—have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels—the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected in this second omnibus volume—stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.
“These final days of his San Francisco friends and lovers, gay and straight, are seriously moving. . . . Maupin deftly illustrates how far America and the pioneering Anna have come, and nearly forty years into the series, his writing remains wildly addictive but is deeper and richer.”—People
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