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Logical Family de Armistead Maupin

Logical Family

Autor Armistead Maupin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2018

Descoperim aici, prin prisma unor memorii ce funcționează ca o arhivă personală a transformării culturale americane, parcursul fascinant al lui Armistead Maupin. Totul începe cu un contrast aproape cinematografic: un tânăr crescut în spiritul tradiționalist al Sudului, fiu al unui avocat conservator, care părăsește Carolina de Nord la volanul unui Opel GT, având la bord portretul unui strămoș confederat. Logical Family nu este doar o autobiografie, ci cronica unei evadări necesare dintr-o lume care devenise prea strâmtă pentru adevărul său interior.

Remarcăm o onestitate tăioasă, dar plină de umor, în modul în care Maupin navighează între extremele vieții sale. De la ritualurile homoerotice din jungla Vietnamului până la prezența în Biroul Oval pentru o discuție bizară cu Richard Nixon, autorul construiește o punte între vechea Americă și efervescența anilor '70 din San Francisco. Stilul său păstrează ritmul alert și farmecul care au consacrat seria 28 Barbary Lane, însă aici ficțiunea lasă locul unei vulnerabilități directe. Pe același raft cu Becoming A Man de Paul Monette, dar cu un accent pe bucuria descoperirii de sine și pe optimismul construcției comunitare, Logical Family explorează ideea că supraviețuirea depinde de găsirea acelei „familii logice” care să ne oglindească autentic.

Această lucrare ocupă un loc central în opera autorului, oferind contextul real pentru personajele iconice din The Days of Anna Madrigal. Dacă în romanele sale Maupin a documentat eliberarea unei întregi generații, în aceste pagini el își asumă propriul rol de pionier, transformând trauma closetului într-o pledoarie luminoasă pentru libertate. Este o lectură care echilibrează perfect melancolia pierderilor suferite cu râsul eliberator al celui care și-a găsit, în sfârșit, locul.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781784161040
ISBN-10: 1784161047
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd

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Despre autor

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. (născut la 13 mai 1944) este un scriitor american emblematic, cunoscut în special pentru celebra serie de romane Tales of the City, ambientată în San Francisco. Cariera sa a început în jurnalism, dar vocea sa literară a devenit rapid un simbol al emancipării și al schimbării culturale din anii '70 până în prezent. Prin scrierile sale, Maupin a documentat cu empatie și umor evoluția comunității queer, fiind considerat unul dintre cei mai influenți autori contemporani care au adus temele identității de gen și ale diversității în atenția publicului larg.

Descriere

In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the world's best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to claim their own lives.

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Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man “on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.” Realizing that the South was too small for him, this son of a traditional lawyer packed his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a beloved portrait of a Confederate ancestor) and took to the road in search of adventure. It was a journey that would lead him from a homoerotic navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970s. Over the course of the next forty years Maupin would weave his impressions of the city into an epic urban saga: Tales of the City would provide him with a very public coming-out platform and forever transform both his politics and his heart.
Logical Family offers an unforgettable portrait of the man who chronicled the liberation and evolution of America’s queer community over the last four decades with honesty and compassion—and inspired millions to claim their own lives.

Recenzii

“A sweetly frank and funny memoir by a storyteller in the first rank.” — O Magazine
“Entertaining…. Wry and sharply drawn…. There is a good deal of what one expects from Maupin, wit and heartache rolled up into a tidy package, so that any anecdote can bring an ache of longing and a belly laugh all in the same paragraph. There is also vivid, sharp writing.” — New York Times Book Review
“I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read.” — Mary Karr
“Engaging and revelatory, Maupin’s memoir is a delight, punctuating a distinguished career in letters.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us.” — Neil Gaiman
“Wise, witty, and beautifully told.” — People, Book of the Week
“Logical Family gives selflessly of such heartrending experience as it journeys through Maupin’s life.” — Slate
“Vivid and charming.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Maupin is a gifted story teller. His memoir packs much into 289 pages.... Humorous and poignant by turns.” — Charlotte News & Observer
“Engrossing and emotional…. The story is told with such clarity that even those unfamiliar with Maupin’s work can appreciate his life experiences…. The true prize here is the cleverness with which Maupin bares his soul. Maupin ties the bonds of joy and heartache he shares with both his families (biological and ‘logical’), and in so doing he has crafted a nuanced reflection on what it means to love and be loved in a flawed but beautiful world.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
“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…. With just the right amounts of humor, thoughtfulness, and poignancy.” — Library Journal, starred review
“Maupin is a sympathetic and soulful storyteller. His account of a past struggle for equality is especially important in our fraught present.” — BookPage
“Master storyteller Armistead Maupin — the man who defined the difference between ‘a biological family’ and ‘a logical family,’ who is both gifted with fearless art and the ability to speak for millions — finally tells his own story. Logical Family is a sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man.” — Caitlin Moran
“It is easy to understand Maupin’s reputation for geniality, given his openheartedness as a person and his honesty as a writer; and that will make this delightful chronicle attractive to a wide range of readers, whether they’re familiar with his fiction or not.” — Booklist
“Logical Family is a beautiful memoir — so tender and funny and dignified and kind that it left me a little weepy.” — Alan Cumming
“The unflinchingly honest, often humorous, and ultimately powerful memoir of one of the most influential American writers of our time.” — The Advocate
“An enormously talented writer—witty but always sympathetic, generous in showing us the secrets of his heart.... By writing about what’s seemingly different Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what’s so hilariously painfully true for all of us.” — Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement
“Maupin deftly illustrates how far America and the pioneering Anna have come, and nearly 40 years into the [Tales of the City] series, his writing remains wildly addictive but is deeper and richer.” — People
“Together, the nine volumes of ‘Tales’ constitute a cultural touchstone that has enlarged our understanding of the varieties of human behavior…. ‘Tales of the City’ remains an immensely readable accomplishment that wears its significance lightly.” — Washington Post
“A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh... It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.” — Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement

Notă biografică

Armistead Maupin is the author of the Tales of the City series, which includes Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, and The Days of Anna Madrigal. His other books include the memoir Logical Family and the novels Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. Maupin was the 2012 recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award. He lives in Paris.