The third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series Armistead Maupin's best-selling San
Francisco saga. 'An enormously talented writer... By writing about what's seemingly
different Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously painfully true for
all of us' Amy Tan ____________________ The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are
at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal
imprisons an anchor-woman in her basement Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay
Rodeo DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska
and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park.
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane
through heartbreak and triumph through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1970s
San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to
beguile new generations of readers.
