Babycakes: Tales of the City 4 by Armistead Maupin Paperback Book

Description: Babycakes by Armistead Maupin The fourth volume in Armistead Maupins widely acclaimed and much-loved Tales of the City series.The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupins best-selling San Francisco saga.A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh.... It is Maupins Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement____________________When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover theres more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbour, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, The Days of Anna Madrigal and Mona of the Manor. He also wrote an acclaimed memoir, Logical Family.Three television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in London with his husband, Christopher Turner.For more information on Armistead Maupin and his books, see his website at Details ISBN1804994286 Author Armistead Maupin Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781804994283 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-03-07 Imprint Penguin Subtitle Tales of the City 4 Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Audience General UK Release Date 2024-03-07 ISBN-10 1804994286 Series Tales of the City Pages 304 Alternative 9781448126965 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158747871;

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