In this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, 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. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is a triumphant finale to one of the most addictively entertaining series of novels ever written.
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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 )
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 )
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The sixth volume in the acclaimed Tales of the City series.
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I've just finished this after reading all 6 books in sequence with no breaks in between! I became fascinated by the lives of Mouse & Co and felt as if I was in a soap opera!...
It was interesting watching characters change, develop, meet people, dump them, grow up (or not), 'find themselves' as it were - much as in real life. I'm not sure what more could be done with the characters or the plot so perhaps it was fitting that it ended where it did. Nice to see almost all the original characters back in the conclusion, in one form or another!
On the whole, a brilliant series if a little too coincidental (but we have to suspend disbelief don't we - think Shakespeare?) I preferred the earlier '70s ones personally, but times change, as do we all, and life goes on.
I'll read them again!
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This is the sixth and final book in the Tales from... series. The characters have grown up a little, had some dreams shattered and move on to make their own next chunck of reality. In doing so they each take some relationships with them and leave some behind. As the readers who have loved them all in their own way, you want them to stay together forever and prolong the life of the world you have lived in. Change is hard, but nothing that is living stands still, it must move on.
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Writing a series of books must be hard but writing six!! More impressive is the gentle wit and humanity of Maupin's characters. Read them all, bet you will know what the characters are feeling from personal experience
By Zade
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Of course, you have to read the five books leading up to this one - but wow! The characters really do come alive and find a way to live inside your head... it has been so well written that the words become pictures and the story-line really is 'watched' as a soap-opera but beware! - real time disolves when reading these books.
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I agree with other reviews that having read through all the novels in the series, it depresses me to see that the characters are moving away from each other, breaking what was one, big happy family. The characters become part of your life and it's the end of an era!
This last book is just like the others, hilariously funny and outrageously sad within the same sentence. I have never laughed or cried so much during a series.
A fantastic series that I cannot recommend enough. A bittersweet ending.
This last book is just like the others, hilariously funny and outrageously sad within the same sentence. I have never laughed or cried so much during a series.
A fantastic series that I cannot recommend enough. A bittersweet ending.
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The last in the Tales of the City series, this book is a wonder and a tragedy all at once. I couldn't wait to read it and at the same time couldn't bear that it meant the end. Read them all, they are totally addictive, then read them again and again. You know you want to!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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HAving read through all the novels in the series, it depresses me to see that the characters are moving away from each other, breaking what was one, big happy family.
Guess that is the magic of Maupin, that all of his characters become a part of your life, and you feel sad when they are sad, you feel happy when they are happy, and you feel miserable when they drift apart
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This book will have you in stitches and tears, often simultaneously. Maupin's portrayal of Brian and Mary-Ann is expert, and unbiassed in a way that let's the reader decide whose side he/she takes. The ending is very symbolic, and little Shawna is a delight. All round a brilliant read, especially for those who have followed the series.
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