Tales of the City – Complete – Armistead Maupin Free Audiobook

Written by Armistead Maupin
Read by Barbara Rosenblat, Alan Cumming, Cynthia Nixon, Eric McCormack, William Hope, Kate Mulgrew, Mara Wilson, Armistead Maupin
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

I am replacing my first ever torrent here, uploaded 11 years ago with higher bitrate upgrades.

These are now fully chaptered with chapter titles included.

I know some nice people adopted the old torrent and kept it seeded for over a decade. Thank-you, whoever you were but I’m deleting it once this is seeded. If you fancy adopting this replacement you’d be a star!

The first three books, read by Barbara Rosenblat & ‘Michael Tolliver lives’ read by William Hope, are all rarities that you can’t get from Audible. If someone was feeling generous, it would be nice to see a torrent of the Audible versions of those books…

Armistead Maupin’s ground-breaking LGBT soap-opera has been entertaining readers since it started as a news-paper column in the late 1970s

TALES OF THE CITY – Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous – unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin.

MORE TALES OF THE CITY – Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the City rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams.

FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY – Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic sequel to Tales of the City and More Tales of the City. DeDe Halcyon-Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement storeroom, and Armistead Maupin is in firm control. This version is unredacted, in the book all references to Rock Hudson, Jim Nabors & Doris Day were redacted and replaced by underscores. This audiobook version does away with such coyness.

BABYCAKES – Narrated by Alan Cumming

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

SIGNIFICANT OTHERS – Narrated by Cynthia Nixon

Tranquility reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world’s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin’s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.

SURE OF YOU – Narrated by Eric McCormack

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.

MONA OF THE MANOR – Narrated by Mara Wilson

Mona is the eccentric Lady of Easley House, running a bed and breakfast to keep her inherited English manor afloat. Wilfred is Mona’s 26-year-old adopted son who spends his weekends in London, looking for love in the gay bars of Soho while pining after his pen pal, Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver.

The current guest of the manor is Rhonda, a straight-laced southern belle who has left her abusive husband and has no idea what to do next, especially in the company of the free-spirited Mona and Wilfred.

Mona of the Manor is a sharply witty comedy about identity, assumptions and finding a logical family in early 90s post-Thatcher Britain.

MICHAEL TOLLIVER LIVES – Narrated by William Hope

Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers—for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary . . . and filled with the everyday miracles of living.

MARY ANN IN AUTUMN – Narrated by Armistead Maupin

Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin’s Mary Ann in Autumn is a touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh starts, as the City by the Bay welcomes back Mary Ann Singleton, the beloved Tales of the City heroine who started it all. A new chapter begins in the lives of both Mary Ann and Michael “Mouse” Tolliver when she returns to San Francisco to rejoin her oldest friend after years in New York City…the reunion that fans of Maupin’s beloved Tales of the City series have been awaiting for years.

THE DAYS OF ANNA MADRIGAL – Narrated by Kate Mulgrew

The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin’s bestselling “Tales of the City” series, follows one of modern literature’s most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane—as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past.

Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of “leaving like a lady,” Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her “logical family” in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades.

Some members of Anna’s family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert where 60,000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. Anna herself has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to unfinished business she has long avoided.