Tales of the City (#1)
Author(s): Armistead Maupin
The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga, is an uproariously moving novel and an indelible portrait of cultural change from the seventies.
Named as one of the BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Novels, a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick and Britain's favourite gay/lesbian novel from The Big Gay Read
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Originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.
Among the cast of this ground-breaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
Product Information
Originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle, this book - this series spans some five decades in the lives of a disparate group of residents of 28 Barbary Lane. Fresh and immediate, the books transport the reader to a city socially, politically, and sexually in flux, experiencing with Maupin's dazzling array of characters the highs and lows of their lives in the City. -- Adam (staff)
General Fields
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- : Transworld Publishers Limited
- : Transworld Publishers Limited
- : 0.244
- : 01 March 2024
- : 1.5 Centimeters X 12.7 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : 01 March 2024
- : books
Special Fields
- : Armistead Maupin
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813.5/4
- : 272
- : FA