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  • Location: San Francisco

Sure Of You: Tales of the City 6

Sure Of You: Tales of the City 6

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1970s: The sixth in the tales of the city of San Franscisco

  • ISBN: 978-0552998819
  • Genre: Fiction

What you need to know before your trail

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.

Travel Guide

San Franscisco

Macondray Lane

The inspiration for Barbary Lane is Macondray Lane – though the location is not where Armistead describes here though..

“The house was on Barbary Lane, a narrow, wooded walk-way off Leavenworth between Union and Filbert. It was a well-weathered, three-story structure made of brown shingles. It made Mary Ann think of an old bear with bits of foliage caught in its fur. She liked it instantly.”

The Buena Vista

(2765 Hyde Street at Beach)

“She came to the city alone for an eight-day vacation. On the fifth night, she drank three Irish coffees at the Buena Vista, realized that her Mood Ring was blue, and decided to phone her mother in Cleveland.”

Washington Square Park

The location where Anna Madrigal met Edgar Halcyon in the “Tales of the City” Novel.

“He sat down on a bench in Washington Square. Next to him was a woman who was roughly his age. She was wearing wool slacks and a paisley smock. She was reading the Bhagavad Gita.

Did you know? : A time capsule was buried underneath Benjamin Franklin in 1979. It contains a copy of “Tales of the City”

Point Bonita

“The beach at Point Bonita was almost empty. At the north end, a group of teen-agers was flying a huge Mylar kite with a shimmering tail.”

Twin Peaks

Toad Hall and The Midnight Sun were wall-to-wall flannel, as usual. He passed them up for The Twin Peaks, where his crew-neck sweater and corduroy trousers would seem less alien to the environment.

Cruising, he had long ago decided, was a lot like hitch-hiking.

It was best to dress like the people you wanted to pick you up.”

Booktrail Boarding Pass: Sure Of You: Tales of the City 6

Destination : San Francisco  Author/Guide: Armistead Maupin  Departure Time: 1970s

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