EAN: 9781804994252

MAUPIN ARMISTEAD TALES OF THE CITY

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  
____________________   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.

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