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  • By: Armistead Maupin
  • Narrator: Eric McCormack
  • Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: March 26, 2013
  • Language: English
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Sure of You Audiobook Summary

Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City

The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.

A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is the pitch-perfect sixth novel in Armistead Maupin’s legendary Tales of the City series.

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Sure of You Audiobook Narrator

Eric McCormack is the narrator of Sure of You audiobook that was written by Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin is the author of the nine-volume 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 now The Days of Anna Madrigal. Maupin's other novels include Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. Maupin was the 2012 recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, the photographer Christopher Turner.

About the Author(s) of Sure of You

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Sure of You Full Details

Narrator Eric McCormack
Length 6 hours 51 minutes
Author Armistead Maupin
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date March 26, 2013
ISBN 9780062259776

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The publisher of the Sure of You is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062259776.

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Goodreads Reviews

Fabian

February 06, 2020

It's testament to the writer's insatiable wit that the last volume in the Tales of the City Chronicles ends with the main protagonists (Mary Ann, Mona, Ana Madrigal, Brian and Michael) at the forefront, no new characters added (Michael's boyfriend was added in the previous, and less successful of the novels, "Significant Others"; plus a returning character from book II stirs up the p(l)ot). We get to down to the basic blocks, the glue that has kept all these characters in each other's company in the first place. We feel nostalgia for the beginning stories, with their naivete now fully replaced by a wisdom that only comes at certain twists & turns of life. Very sad, but very devastatingly REAL (at last, this is "Sure"ly the most realistic in the entire series). This, after all, seems to be the ultimate gift to the modern human: new beginnings.

Dan

April 13, 2016

This is my favorite one, so far. It's also the shortest, but Maupin packs in a lot of pathos. There's a new level of poignancy and maturity here. It's still a funny and fun read, but this is decidedly a political novel, embodied by Michael's lover Thack. Sure of You definitely moved me. I was tearing up when Michael thought he'd developed KS - don't worry, that's not a spoiler, especially considering the title of the next book in the series. I was glad to see Mona played a sizable role here. For a while, I kinda felt like she'd been written out. And her relationship with Mrs. Madrigal continues to get stronger, which is great to see - always great to see more of Mrs. M! On the other end of the spectrum, Mary Ann's slide into despicable territory picked up huge momentum here. I won't give anything away, but if you've been following the series you won't be surprised by the development. There are still two book left (and potentially a new one this year!), but these first six feel like a unit. They were published in 2-3 year intervals, whereas the next one didn't come out until 2007. In a way, I feel like I've lived a whole life in the last six weeks as I made my way through these Tales. I'll be sad when they're over.If you liked this, make sure to follow me on Goodreads for more reviews!

Clemens

April 17, 2019

Mit diesem sechsten Band kommt die Stadtgeschichten-Reihe von Armistead Maupin zu ihrem Abschluss.Die Erzählung hat das Jahr 1989 erreicht. Von den Hauptprotagonist_innen des Romans, die wohnt aus der Mrs. Madrigal niemand mehr in der Barbary Lane 28, dem Zentrum dieser Geschichtenreihe. Die Hippieglückseligkeit der früheren Bände ist nur noch eine Ahnung. So wird in einer kurzen Szene die Rückkehr der Hippiemode als Retrotrend angedeutet.Es durchzieht den gesamten Roman eine nicht zu leugnende Melancholie. Abschiede künden sich an. Die AIDS-Hysterie ist zwar verschwunden und mit ihr auch die Angst vor dem eigenen Tod bei manchen Charakteren. Maupin bringt schmerzlich zum Ausdruck, wie die Homosexuellenszene San Franciscos sich mit ihrem vermeintlichen Schicksal abfindet. Ein deutlicher Anklang an einen gewisse Fatalismus.Im Gegensatz zu den Vorgängerromanen gibt es hier keinen speziellen Spannungsmoment, um den Maupin seine Erzählung herum aufbaut. Dafür treten ein paar alte Bekannte aus den früheren Romanen auf, die dieses letztes Buch rund machen.Wie so viele amerikanische Romane aus den Achtzigern und Neunzigern liest man auch diesen in dem Bewusstsein, dass er von einem Amerika erzählt, das es so nicht mehr gibt. Das verstärkt den melancholischen Gehalt dieses Buches noch einmal.Zwar endet der Roman mit einem Neuanfang und einem angedeuteten Neuanfang, aber was daraus wurde, erfährt man nicht mehr und so nimmt man am Ende wehmütig Abschied von den Charakteren, die man im Laufe der sechs Bücher ins Herz geschlossen hat.

Ruby

April 27, 2020

Another entertaining installment of Tales of the City. This one includes humor, pathos, heart break, temptation, love, and the characters I've come to know and love. I would have liked a bit more about Mrs. Madrigal, but we did get more of Mona and a strong focus on Michael. We see sides of Mary Ann that we'd hoped weren't there. I'll be getting #7 as soon as I can. I really do love this series.

Chris

November 10, 2022

This continuation gives me so much of what I love in a book. The character development over the six books I've read so far is interesting. I've gone from loving Mary-Ann to seriously disliking her and Michael is an angel. I'm looking forward to seeing where we go next since there was a significant gap between the writing of this and the next one.

Rory

May 24, 2011

The final book in original cannon has grown on me sine I first read it years ago. Each of the many characters in the series gets a cameo in the story--with the exception of about three--from Connie to Prue and it gives a sense of who and what might been down the road.Rereading the series and this book gave me a greater sense of how and why Maupin did what he did with the story. Even though I still wihs for better happy ending for the characters, part of the theme of the book is growing up and learning to make adult decisions which can balance between selfless and selfish. I do wish that Mary Anne and Anna each had made better choices for themselves but i understand why and what they do. It helps that some of these story threads are cleared up in the additional books--that and my own jaded viewpoint helps.In the end, I wish Mona had gotten a slightly better send off than she did. Especially since this really is the last time we spend any serious face time with her. I also wish that there had been some moments about Edgar Halycon as well as the grandchildren but Maupin seems to have left out mirth and memories for the real world. Which kind of sucks

Thomas

July 27, 2021

The final “proper” book of the TOTC series is a splendid finalé, mercifully without the big, soapy whodunit plotlines of which Maupin is often fond, focusing on the characters about whom we’ve always cared: Michael, Brian, Mary Ann, Mona, and of course Anna Madrigal. In many ways this may be my favorite of the 6 books. God bless Armistead Maupin for inventing these people and bringing them into our lives.

Matt

November 27, 2018

In its sixth volume, Tales of the City is more insular and cynical than ever—and that’s only a good thing about half the time.Where previous books in the series move their plot forward by bringing new characters to Barbary Lane, Sure of You does so by returning to the roots of the series, deepening the relationships of the characters we’ve come to care about over the course of a few hundred pages. Everyone’s moved away from 28 Barbary Lane in the three years since the last volume: Brian and Mary Ann have a condo together and a daughter starting elementary school, and Michael and Thack have built a home for themselves, too. This is where the volume’s central tension lies—in moving away, and in moving on, and in the consequences these actions have for our loved ones. It’s about endings and beginnings and the spaces between the two where, most often, nothing makes enough sense. Watching these characters come to terms with transition and loss is nothing new for long-time fans, but this time it’s the center holding everything together.I appreciated this most about Sure of You; it doesn’t hatch a wacky plot to carry itself forward. The hijinks have been quelled significantly. And that’s not to say that I dislike the hijinks of the past, but this makes sense as an extension of that. It’s obvious that Maupin knows these characters like old friends, now. The brief, humorous interactions have, for the most part, been replaced with complex emotions and decisions. I left the book feeling more attached to the core cast than ever before.But this shift in tone and plot also ends up making the book the least hopeful of the series yet, at times to an almost off-putting extent. Sometimes one character’s moment of hatred for another is so extreme that it made me want to leave the book behind. It’s like being stuck in the middle of a friend group that’s constantly bickering—who do you take sides with when you love the people on all sides of the argument? It felt like Maupin really did hate some of the things his characters did, and though they’re quite realistic, really, it’s not easy to read. This volume was the ending to the series for a long while. I think I would have been upset with it as such. No one’s very content at its conclusion; there isn’t much in the way of closing remarks. It left me uneasy.But, despite its cynicism, Sure of You is for the most part very enjoyable, especially in its moments of small beauty, which Maupin has always written well. It’s not easy to watch your friends moving on, but it is rewarding nonetheless.

Melissa

December 13, 2022

It has taken me 20 years to finish reading this series, which is not great for remembering specific plot points or minor characters, but is great to feel like I have a little imaginary group of friends I drop in and visit every few years and find out what the denizens of Barbary Lane have been up to. Because the first books were written/set in the 70s, most of those pop culture references went over my head, but this is from 1989, which means I made little happy noises at the references to Jem, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pee Wee's Playhouse. I wanted a little more of Anna and Mona's trip to Greece, but otherwise this is an entirely enjoyable read and a bittersweet end to a literary journey.

Dennis

December 18, 2021

I don’t really remember what I thought of this originally planned finale to the Tales series when I first read it. Perhaps it was just too long ago or perhaps as a soap watcher all my life I just understood that they always come back and that there would always be more. What I do know is that I am still in love with these folks and very excited that more books exist now in the series that I never read before and that I can go back to Barbary Lane, 90210 for the first time all over again.

Paul

February 10, 2019

I am late to discovering this series, but each installment has been a quick, enjoyable read. It's also been fun to encounter one the earlier mainstream representations of gay and lesbian individuals and ponder how relevant the characters' stories are still today. I also appreciate the cultural references and descriptions of life in San Francisco and the sometimes thinly veiled characters based on real-life personalities.

LenaRibka

March 29, 2019

3,5 starsNot my favourite instalment ( too much attention to the characters I don't care about, especially THE ONE), but I just like this series and Eric McCormack, narrator, did a great job.

Ayla

December 22, 2019

** spoiler alert ** Another close call for Micheal, but it all turns out ok! Can’t say the same for Brian though.

Mike

August 23, 2019

This is the second time I've read this book. I've read all of Armistead Maupin's books already. After watching the recent Netflix mini-series, I decided to go back and re-read the entire Tales of the City series. Now that I'm done with the first two trilogies, I'm really glad I've re-read them.His writing is so fluid, so casual that he makes it look easy. Characters, locales and certain times in history are portrayed excellently. In this book, we really see harsh reality set in. Mary Ann and Brian have moved out of Barbary Lane. So has Michael. AIDS is full-blown in San Francisco and life is full of panicked moments and "what-ifs". New relationships take hold and old relationships die off. This book captures those moments as you grow older and things that you thought were permanent turn out to be moments in time.If you haven't read Tales of the City yet, please start with Volume 1. I was very happy to loan my first three books to a friend recently for his first-time reading. These books are a joy.

Marco

July 25, 2012

The familiar Barbary Lane's characters are back, a little older. Reading this book feels like a high school re-union, where familiar faces trigger powerful memories, and we are faced with the realization that those time are gone, and time flew by. Michael moved to the Castro with his partner, living what would be a great life if not for the HIV virus in his blood. Mrs Madrigal and her daughter Mona travel to the Greek islands, and Mary Ann is given a great work opportunity that may strain her relationship with Brian. As always, Maupin excels in the deep psychological portrait of his characters, and his amazing ability to portray the spirit of San Francisco, its contradictions and inner turmoil at a particular moment in time.

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