Logical Family
Author: Maupin, Armistead
ISBN: 9781784161040
Publisher: BLACK SWAN
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 196mm x 127mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Long awaited and worth that wait - Armistead Maupin finally tells us his story
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. It is a journey that leads him from the racism and misogyny of mid-century North Carolina to a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to an awkward conversation about girls with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office of the White House. After losing his virginity to another man 'on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired', Maupin packs his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a portrait of a Confederate ancestor) and heads west to that strangest of strange lands- San Francisco in the early 1970's.
ISBN: 9781784161040
Publisher: BLACK SWAN
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 196mm x 127mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Long awaited and worth that wait - Armistead Maupin finally tells us his story
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. It is a journey that leads him from the racism and misogyny of mid-century North Carolina to a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to an awkward conversation about girls with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office of the White House. After losing his virginity to another man 'on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired', Maupin packs his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a portrait of a Confederate ancestor) and heads west to that strangest of strange lands- San Francisco in the early 1970's.
