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SURE  of  YOU

by Armistead Maupin

ISBN: 0060924845

Publisher: HarperPerennial, USA

Published:   1994

Binding:   Softcover   262 pages

Condition:   UNread condition!   A retired display copy!

Edition:  FIRST  EDITION

NOTE:   All of my listings used  to contain many HUGE close-up photos embedded within my listing - however in June 2017 action taken by Photobucket, the image hosting website, has removed them all -   so far THIS  listing still has my photos -  fingers crossed. I am happy to email any photos you request via email.

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UNread - it was the display copy. It is Tight -  neat, no inscriptions or marks. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!!  A nicely  preserved copy - superb! 

Minimal, if any, discernible shelf wear, the interior is tight and clean with 262 pages.

In original softcover binding, lovely shiny pictorial cover.

SYNOPSIS

Book 6  in the Tales of the City Series 

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.

About the Author

Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. Maupin worked briefly as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. The climate of freedom and tolerance he found in his adopted city inspired him to come out publicly as homosexual in 1974. Two years later, he launched his "Tales of the City" serial in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first fiction to appear in an American daily for decades.

 

Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. Three miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three novels in the Tales series. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette.

 

He lives in Santa Fe with his husband, the photographer Christopher Turner.

Very,  very entertaining  read!

Reviews..

Publishers weekly ….  The author's six-novel chronicle of gay, straight, single and married life in San Francisco, which began with Tales of the City , comes to a clever, wistful conclusion here. PW praised Maupin's "unerring ability to capture the exact tone of smart urban conversation."

Library Journal … This sixth, and final, volume of the Tales of the City series finds the now-former residents of 28 Barbary Lane dealing with the late '80s. Michael, after finally finding love with Thack, now must cope with being HIV-positive. Mary Ann's success as a talk-show host puts a fatal strain upon her marriage to Brian. Mona, with Mrs. Madrigal, vacations on the island of Lesbos searching for spiritual roots. Just as the characters have grown and matured over the course of the series, so, too, has Maupin's writing, producing a work that both serves as an appropriate ending for a terrific series and stands on its own as a novel.

"Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials...it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling" - Literary Review

"A consummate entertainer...It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly" - Times Literary Supplement

"San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin"- Independent

"I know I was not the only one who was up until two in the morning, promising myself to stop after just one chapter" - David Feinberg The New York Times Book Review

"Armistead Maupin's acclaim is richly deserved. He uses suspense, mystery and coincidence far more inventively than the more typical novelist"  - Jonathan Coe Guardian

Yet another EXCELLENT novel by Maupin …… Armistead Maupin is my favorite writer, bar none. If you have read any of the Tales of the City novels, you know that this novel was the original end of the series, leaving off with the character's lives in the 1980s. Maupin since rekindled our love for the series by picking back up with these beloved characters now living in the twilight years of their lives, adding three more excellent novels to the series and giving fans a taste of the unpredictability of life and how we find purpose through its twists and turns. I can't recommend this novel nor any of the others within the full series enough. :-)

Falling out of love with Barbary Lane …. In “Tales of the City” Maupin allowed us to fall in love with an extraordinary cast of characters. In “Sure of You”, we come to the inevitable, heartbreaking conclusion at the end of all love affairs--that many of these characters are not, and possibly were never, as worthy of our affections as we first surmised. Is this a disappointment or a revelation? Whatever it is, it's not what you'd expect from Maupin. His character development in this novel is nothing short of masterful, but for obvious reasons, the overall effect isn't quite as breathtaking as his superb ”Significant Others”. “Sure of You”  isn't my favorite book in the series, but it may be the wisest.

MARY ANN SINGLETON ……  Mary Ann Singleton first saw San Francisco at 25, everyone fell in love with the midwest transplant, but then when fame and ambition made her betray those closest to her ... she ran to New York and away from it all. It was characteristic of the ultimate lesson of the 80's. While the Tales of the City characters galavanted around in adventure during the 1970's ... the 80's greed and ambition transformed TV star Mary Ann into a cruel yuppie. Ending the saga ... culiminating in the 1989 San Francisco earthquake and Mary Ann abandoning all those who supported her throughout the years. Tales began and ended with Mary Ann ... and it was all just bittersweet.