Sinficant Others,the fifth self-contained chroncle in the Tales of the City asag ,is a cunningly boserved class comedy theat's sure to be relished by the cognosceti and by new readeras a like. a holiday in the redwoods goes uproariously awry when the opposing sexes camp out close to each other for comfort.Among those entangled in the mayhem are DeDe Halcyon,reformed debutante,troubled house-husband Brian Hawkins ,and the irrepressible Michael ‘Mouse'Toliver(arguably Maupin’most beloved creation) ‘Comedy in it's most classical from…some of the sharpest and most xpeakable dialogue you are ever likely to read'JONATHAN COE,GUARDIAN ‘Mapin's universe fot all of us'PAUL LEVY,OBSERVER ‘As engaging a rean a you're likely to encounter in amny moon's JOHN NICHOLSON,THE TIMES ‘Wise,witty,loving and caring a bout the foibles and frailties we all seen to have'DAVED HOCKNEY 作者简介: Armistead,Maupin was born in Washington,D.C.in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh,North Carlina .A graduate
On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for aparty and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smithis suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Theirdays interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches itsglittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interiormonologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made itone of her most popular works.
Writing with a signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Marc Reisner leads us through California’s improbable rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the success of this last great desert civilization hinges on California’s denial of its own inescapable fate: Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, a mere prologue to a future cataclysm that will result in immense destruction. Concluding with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic de*ion of what such a disaster would look like, A Dangerous Place mixes science, history, and cultural commentary in a haunting work of profound importance.