LOGICAL FAMILY: A Memoir - Softcover

Maupin, Armistead

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062391259 ISBN 13: 9780062391254

Verlag: Perennial, 2018

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"A sweetly frank and funny memoir by a storyteller in the first rank."--O Magazine

"Logical Family gives selflessly of such heartrending experience as it journeys through Maupin's life."--Slate

"Vivid and charming."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"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

"Engrossing and emotional.... The story is told with such clarity that even those unfamiliar with Maupin's work can appreciate his life experiences.... The true prize here is the cleverness with which Maupin bares his soul. Maupin ties the bonds of joy and heartache he shares with both his families (biological and 'logical'), and in so doing he has crafted a nuanced reflection on what it means to love and be loved in a flawed but beautiful world."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"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

"Master storyteller Armistead Maupin -- the man who defined the difference between 'a biological family' and 'a logical family, ' who is both gifted with fearless art and the ability to speak for millions -- finally tells his own story. Logical Family is a sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man."--Caitlin Moran

"It is easy to understand Maupin's reputation for geniality, given his openheartedness as a person and his honesty as a writer; and that will make this delightful chronicle attractive to a wide range of readers, whether they're familiar with his fiction or not."--Booklist

"Logical Family is a beautiful memoir -- so tender and funny and dignified and kind that it left me a little weepy."--Alan Cumming

"The unflinchingly honest, often humorous, and ultimately powerful memoir of one of the most influential American writers of our time."--The Advocate

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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

In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to ground-breaking writer and gay rights pioneer.

Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man "on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired." Realizing that the South was too small for him, this son of a traditional lawyer packed his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a beloved portrait of a Confederate ancestor), and took to the road in search of adventure. It was a journey that would lead him from a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970s.

Reflecting on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, Maupin shares his candid search for his "logical family," the people he could call his own. "Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us," he writes. "We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives." From his loving relationship with his palm-reading Grannie who insisted Maupin was the reincarnation of her artistic bachelor cousin, Curtis, to an awkward conversation about girls with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, Maupin tells of the extraordinary individuals and situations that shaped him into one of the most influential writers of the last century.

Maupin recalls his losses and life-changing experiences with humor and unflinching honesty, and brings to life flesh-and-blood characters as endearing and unforgettable as the vivid, fraught men and women who populate his enchanting novels. What emerges is an illuminating portrait of the man who depicted the liberation and evolution of America’s queer community over the last four decades with honesty and compassion—and inspired millions to claim their own lives.

Logical Family includes black-and-white photographs.

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• Verlag: Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0062391259
• ISBN 13: 9780062391254
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336