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Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4)

by: Armistead Maupin

: Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060924836
ISBN: 0060924837
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: January 26, 1994
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: January 07, 1994
Sales Rank: 165467
Studio: Harper Perennial



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'An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco.'
--New York Times Book Review

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

'Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh.'
--Ian McKellen

'Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop.'
--Denver Post

'Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on.'
-- New York Times Book Review



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A darker time begins
A lot of readers consider this the beginning of the darker "Tales" books, but that's only half-true. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Maupin's Magical San Francisco
Mrs. Madrigal and her team of tenants continue to reveal the wacky and zany "only in San Francisco" adventures ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Very disappointing
After reading and loving the first 3 "Tales of the City" books, I couldn't wait to read this book. What a terrible ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Beautiful, quirky, diverse, magical Baghdad by the Bay
The late, great SF Chronicle columnist Herb Caen coined the term Baghdad by the Bay for the city that captured his ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Another good read from Maupin
Yet another series of adventures for the delightful characters that populate Maupin's books, this time with a bittersweet ... Read More

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