{"product_id":"0812973011170","title":"Joseph Joachim Raff: Symphony No. 7 \"In Den Alpen\"; Chaconne; Abends","description":"\u003cp\u003e A hilarious and touching new installment of Armistead Maupin's beloved Tales of the City series \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael \"Mouse\" Tolliver, a gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Ann finds temporary refuge in the couple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of fifty-seven, she licks her wounds and takes stock of her mistakes. Soon, with the help of Facebook and a few old friends, she begins to reengage with life, only to confront fresh terrors when her checkered past comes back to haunt her in a way she could never have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the intimate first-person narrative of Maupin's last novel, \u003cem\u003eMichael Tolliver Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMary Ann in Autumn\u003c\/em\u003e marks the author's return to the multicharacter plotlines and darkly comic themes of his earlier work. Among those caught in Mary Ann's orbit are her estranged daughter, Shawna, a popular sex blogger; Jake Greenleaf, Michael's transgendered gardening assistant; socialite DeDe Halcyon-Wilson; and the indefatigable Anna Madrigal, Mary Ann's former landlady at 28 Barbary Lane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than three decades in the making, Armistead Maupin's legendary Tales of the City series rolls into a new age, still sassy, irreverent, and curious, and still exploring the boundaries of the human experience with insight, compassion, and mordant wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Klaus M Schwarzenholz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47092438728944,"sku":"0812973011170","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0812973011170_p0.jpg?v=1763525380","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0812973011170","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}