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Logical Family
A Memoir
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Long awaited and worth that wait—Armistead Maupin finally tells us his story. Logical Family is a sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man' – Caitlin Moran. 'A beautiful memoir—so tender and funny and dignified and kind that it left me...
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Long awaited and worth that wait—Armistead Maupin finally tells us his story.
Logical Family is a sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man' – Caitlin Moran.
'A beautiful memoir—so tender and funny and dignified and kind that it left me a little weepy' – Alan Cumming.
'I read Logical Family as slowly as I could. It was like having the great man visit and sit smoking and gossiping from an armchair at the foot of the bed' – Patrick Gale.
In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to ground-breaking writer and gay rights pioneer.
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 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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781837320035
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin (Transworld)
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 202g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, The Days of Anna Madrigal and Mona of the Manor. He also wrote an acclaimed memoir, Logical Family. Three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in London with his husband, Christopher Turner. For more information on Armistead Maupin and his books, see his website at www.armisteadmaupin.com
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