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Lädt ... Tales of the City Vol. 1: From the Novels of Armistead Maupin (2020)von Armistead Maupin, Isabelle Bauthian (Autor), Sandrine Revel (Illustrator)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss. I haven't read the original books by Armistead Maupin, so I don't know if the cheesy soap opera tone of this graphic novel adaptation is in there or if it is just a function of distilling down all the main plot points to fit them in a slim volume. A young single woman with the on-the-nose name of Singleton moves to San Francisco to make it on her own. She gets to know the landlady and other tenants in her apartment building, and we get to know all their romantic entanglements, which frequently revolve around infidelity. There's a whole lot of hooking up and breaking up. To add to the drama, terminal illness, being closeted, homophobia, pregnancy, a private investigator, and suicide are tossed into the mix, and then the ending really goes over the top with Frankly, it's like three or four seasons of All My Children boiled down into a book that takes less than an hour to read. Also, I always feel weird when the book is subject to the Google Translate game. This is the English translation of a French graphic novel adapting an novel originally written in English. I'm curious if the translators went back to Maupin's original novel as a source to reference his exact words or tone or if they just do a straight translation from the French and call it a day. In the end, reading this brief graphic novel felt more like reading a Soap Opera Digest weekly recap than watching the soap itself. I'm almost curious to check out Maupin's first novel to get the full effect, but I doubt I will. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She wel-comes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her superb marijuana crop. The novel starts with the arrival of Mary Ann Singleton, a prudish, naïve, young woman who escaped her dull Ohio hometown for San Francisco. She settles in with her other fellow tenants: Michael "Mouse," a personable young gay man, Brian Hawkins, an incor-rigible Don Juan, and Mona Ramsey, a young hippyish bisexua Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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