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This is the second chronicle in the "Tales of the City" saga which follows the adventures of a naive young secretary who forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco and discovers a whole new world filled with a bizarre cast of characters.<br><br>作者简介<br>    Armistead Maupin was born in Washington,D.C.in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh,North Carolina.A graduate of the University of North Carolina,he served as a naval officer in Vietnam befor moving to Cclifornia in 1971 as a reportern for the Assoceatde Press.In 1976 he launched his daily newspaper serial,Tales of the City,in the San Francisco Chronicle.The First the fiction to appear in an American daily for decades,Tales grew into an internationnal sensation when compiled and rewritten as novels.Maupin's six -volume Tales of the City sequence-tales of the City,More Tales of the City,Further Tales of the City,Babycakes,Sigificant Others and Sure of You-are now multi-nillion bestsellers published in eleven languages.The First two of these novels were adapted as a pair of widely acclaimed television mini-series:the third,Further Tales of the City is currently in production.Maupin's 1992novel,Maybe the Moon,chronicling the adventures of the world's shortest woman,was a number one bestseller.As a librettist th collaborated in 1999 with composer Jake Heggie on Anna Madrigal Remembers for mezzo-soprano Frederca von Stade an Chanticleer,the classcal choral ensemble.Maupin's latest novel is the Night Listener.He lives in San Francisco,California.

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