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“Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers.”—Neil Gaiman
Set in the early 1990s, the long-awaited tenth novel in Armistead Maupin’s beloved and enduring Tales of the City series follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey, now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in Britain’s golden Cotswolds, and her fabulous adopted son Wilfred, as they come to the aid of an American visitor with a troubling secret.
When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, Teddy’s grand, romantic country manor in the UK. She also didn’t imagine that she’d need to open the manor’s doors to paying guests to afford the electric bill and repair the leaking roof. Yet somehow she and her young friend Wilfred–whom guests assume is serving as Easley’s charming-but-clumsy butler–and the loopy old gardener Mr. Hargis, are making it work.
This delicate equilibrium is upended when Americans Rhonda and Ernie Blaylock arrive for a weekend vacation at Easley, and Wilfred stumbles onto their terrible secret. Now, instead of being able to focus on the imminent arrival of her old friend Michael Tolliver and beloved parent Anna Madrigal, Mona will need to focus all of her considerable charm, willpower, and wiles—and the help of Wilfred and Mona’s girlfriend Poppy, the town’s postmistress and local calligraphy whiz—to set things right before the Midsummer ceremony when the whole town will descend on Easley’s historic grounds.
ASIN : B0C783C75H
Editore : Harper (5 marzo 2024)
Lingua : Inglese
Dimensioni file : 2870 KB
Da testo a voce : Abilitato
Screen Reader : Supportato
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X-Ray : Non abilitato
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Memo : Su Kindle Scribe
Lunghezza stampa : 250 pagine
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Just finished Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin. It’s a short book, but I really took my time with it. This is the last Tales of the City novel, and it ends the series not with a whimper bit with a happy and heartfelt sigh of a job well done. This novel just filled me with so much happiness, and that’s such a wonderful thing. #imnotcryingyourecrying
Book 10 of 10 of TALES OF THE CITY series by Armistead Maupin. This book was a real treat. Book 1 starts in 1970 inSan Francisco where a young woman from Cleveland is looking for a place to live. The books were made into a TV series of weekly sitcoms in 1993. I watched the series, bought the DVDs, and read all of the books. It is a very entertaining series. Be warned, it is adult material. Check out Mr. Maupin. He is a terrific writer and has a way with painting a picture of the events. This book is a reunion of sorts of the âlogicalâ family that was first introduced in Book 1 although now Mona is living in a manor house in England, having married a gay man who wanted to live in San Francisco. Soâ¦..she moved into his manor house and he moved to San Francisco. This book highlights the lifestyle of Mona and her adopted son, Wilfred. There is a reunion of Anna Madrigal, the head of the original family and owner of the Barbary Lane apartment complex where much of the activity occurs in the first 8 books. It is a tale of life before and after the AIDS epidemic and how everyone coped with the change in how we lived with that horrible disease. This book is about friendship and longtime relationships of the âlogicalâ family. Mr. Maupin has written numerous books and now lives in London with his husband.
Dans la suite des chroniques de San Francisco, on se laisse toujours prendre au jeu de ces personnages, les petites histoires, les surprises de la narration, le choix du vocabulaire. Quel plaisir de retrouver tout cela, câest un peu facile mais tellement bien fait !
I must admit that I didn’t read any of the other books, but I didn’t like it at all.I didn’t like any of the characters and the ending was, as some others said, very rushed and totally unrealistic. No one misses the dead man and they come up with a story that he sent a message from France? Sure, no one will find out that this simply didn’t happen!?I didn’t find Mona particularly tolerant considering that she simply drops her affair because she has a problem with transsexuals. They was no discussion, no trying to solve this issue. She simply dropped her cold turkey. No explanation, no worry how Poppy felt.Then this story about George Michael hiding behind a mask and offering free blow jobs in a park in London? Sure, he might have done that, but that’s a bit cheap claiming about a dead person. If I were a relative of him, I would probably try a law suit. Even if the author would know that as a fact, still, you don’t write about someone who cannot say anything about it anymore. It’s just bad style.Will’s wrong English of using repeatedly “me” instead of “my” might make a point of a different social class, but it started to annoy me and to keep on calling his adoptive mum “me lady” was just unnecessary. This wasn’t funny with the time and would just indicate that he never felt accepted, but I don’t think this was the point.I have a lot of gay friends, but I couldn’t help the feeling that it was just written for a homosexual audience.I left it in a hotel for others to read and I have never done that before. I usually want t keep my books no matter how trivial they are and before some can jump up and say: this is all about being homophobic! It certainly is not, but it was just wasted time. It was simply not very enjoyable to read and the end felt very rushed as whether the publishing deadline came close.In short, I asked myself “why” at the end? What was the reason for the book? It didn’t really make a point. Did they live happily ever after? Did they learn anything? Did it make all sense? Where they very likeable characters?I have to answer no and I wanted to like it!
Classic Maupin. Slight, bordering on gossamer-thin plot, but wonderful to meet old friends again, and in places be moved to tears. His skill for making you care about the characters – and about the unnamed men and women around them – is superb.