Greg Osborne (R): Billy - Ein Engel zum Verlieben

USA 2007, OF, dt.UT, 129 min., € 14.99
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Billy ist gerade 18 geworden. Mit seinem besten Freund Rick will er nun im Heu intim werden. Zu dumm, dass ihn sein strenger Vater dabei erwischt und ihn gleich hochkant aus dem Haus wirft. Ohne ein Zuhause oder Geld macht sich Billy auf den Weg nach Los Angeles. Per Anhalter kommt das Landei in die große Stadt. Der Zufall will ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: The Notorious Dr. August

USA 2001, 498 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Spanning more than sixty years from the Civil War to the early 1920s, and moving from the battlefields of the South to New York City, through Paris, London, Constantinople, and Coney Island, »The Notorious Dr. August« features Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, an improvisational pianist who believes his music is sometimes inspired by the spirit world. He is in ... Weiterlesen
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Armistead Maupin: Sure of You

UK 1991, 284 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 6
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 ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Significant Others

UK 1989, 316 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 5
»Significant Others«, the fifth self-contained chronicle in the »Tales of the City« saga, is a cunningly observed class comedy that's sure to be relished by the cognoscenti and by new readers alike. A holiday in the redwoods goes uproariously awry when the opposing sexes camp out rather too close to each other for comfort. Among those entangled in the mayhem ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Further Tales of the City

UK 1989, 271 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 3
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 ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: More Tales of the City

UK 1989, 288 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 2
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.

Armistead Maupin: Tales of the City

USA 1989, 269 pp., pb, € 14.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 1
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.