Logical family : a memoir / Armistead Maupin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062391223
- ISBN: 0062391224
- Physical Description: 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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Subject: | Maupin, Armistead. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Gay authors > United States > Biography. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | B M452 2017 (Text) | 33126022104859 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 May #2
How did Lambda Pioneer Award winner Maupin get from strait-laced North Carolina to San Francisco, lovingly detailed in his best-selling "Tales of the City" series? How did he find his "logical family," those with whom he felt he belonged? And who helped him become the groundbreaking author that he is? With a 75,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 August #1
It was in Maupin's Tales of the City that he coined the term logical family as a phrase to describe the people we find and choose to love, unlike our biological family. There could be no more appropriate title for Maupin's own tale, which relates his coming of age from a rigidly conservative Southern childhood to one of the most notable writers of the 20th century. Maupin writes vibrantly of his youth, his navy tours in Vietnam, his work on Tales of the City, and his acceptance of his sexuality and friendships within the LGBTQ community. But central to this memoir is the painful conflict that can come when one has both a logical and a biological family, for Maupin's growth into himself is always balanced against his lingering emotional ties to his hidebound father and beloved mother.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal.VERDICT Maupin's long career as a storyteller serves him well with his own biographical material, and he leavens the varied events of his life with just the right amounts of humor, thoughtfulness, and poignancy.âKathleen McCallister, Tulane Univ., New Orleans