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Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel
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Author
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Armistead Maupin.
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Publisher
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Harper
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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6.25
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ISBN
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9780061470882
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Pages/Publication Date
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287/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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22317
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Description
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Before he gave us The Night Listener, Armistead Maupin spun tales of his adopted hometown San Francisco, first published in a Marin County paper and later the San Francisco Chronicle and known collectively as Tales of the City. In this follow-up to Michael Tolliver Lives, 20 years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities have driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband. Mary Ann finds temporary refuge in the couple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of 57, she licks her wounds and takes stock of her mistakes. Soon, with the help of Facebook and a few old friends, she begins to reengage with life, only to confront fresh terrors when her checkered past comes back to haunt her in a way she could never have imagined. "Maupin's San Francisco is comforting in its familiarity, and the gang is (mostly) all here, older, wiser, and settled in.... As ever, Maupin's edgy wit energizes the layered story lines. His keen eye for irony and human foible is balanced by an innate compassion in this examination of the life of a woman of a certain age."—Publishers Weekly
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