Significant Others
by Armistead Maupin
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Author: Armistead MaupinEdition: Paperback
Published: 1989-10-18
ISBN: 0060964081
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Summary: 5 Stars
Armistead Maupin is a famously misplaced Southern writer. Mary Ann is a talk show hostess. Brian Hawkins is her husband. The couple and their daughter, Shawna, have moved from Anna Madrigal's 28 Barbary Lane rental to the Summit.
Brian asks Mrs. Madrigal if his nephew Jed may stay in his old apartment. Wren Douglas feels that hotel rooms are the best part of a book tour. The fat woman, Wren Douglas, is to be a guest on Mary Ann's show. (One of the segments of the show is called Latchkey Kitchen.) Brian's nephew Jed is careerist. Brian sees that in twenty years things have changed radically.
DeDe's twins are called Edgar and Anna. She wants to take them to Wimminwood, a women's festival. Her mother's husband is going to Bohemian Grove at the same time. This is very much a case of writing about an ensemble. In addition to Mrs. Madrigal, Michael Tolliver, a character from the earlier books in the series appears.
One of the employees of Michael's nursery business, Polly, attends Wimminwood and runs into DeDe there. In another instance Michael and Wren are described talking about DeDe's stepfather, Booter Manigault. Michael tells Wren that his friend delivered DeDe's children, Booter's step grandchildren. DeDe tells Polly that she had been someone who joined the People's Temple in Guyana. One farcical scene ensues after Booter's canoe drifts over to the other camp, Wimminwood.
The beauty of the books in this series is that with some rough, deft, and astute strokes setting out the characters the author is able to portray the humor incident to their clash of interests and wills.
Summary of Significant Others
Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world's most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin's cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
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