Babycakes (Tales of the City Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060924837 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A delightful surprise" according to Amazon Customer. If you remember Mood Rings, you'll like the ambiance of this book written back in 1978, when San Francisco was a place for hippies and gays to find love and be accepted. It was made into a TV series with Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis. A fun read and there are a few sequels.. doc peterson said A glimpse at a time and a place. Every now and then an author is able to capture the "magic" - flavor may be a more accurate description - of a time and place. Armistead Maupin has done that in _Tales of the City_.Set in San Francisco in the mid-1970's, the lives of his characters cross each other and intertwine. Originally written as a serial in the San Francisco _Chronicle_, it is reminiscent of Dickens: short vignettes with sharply drawn characters, plenty of drama and tension (sexual and otherwis. Fantastic! I couldn't put this book down. It's fantastic! Funny yet serious at the same time. Can't wait to start reading "More Tales of the City". I highly recommend it.
Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
"A consummate entertainerIt is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly" Times Literary Supplement "Maupin is a richly gifted comic author" Observer "San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin" Independent "Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serialsit is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling" Literary Review "May well be the funniest series of novels currently in progress Maupin's ear for dialogue is as acute as his feeling for characterisation, and the net result is as engaging a read as you are likely to encounter in many moons" The Times
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 Au