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"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." <BR>--New York Times Book Review Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed a singular trail through popular culture--from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a wry comedy of manners and a deeply involving portrait of a vanished era. <BR><BR>"A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh...It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly." <BR>--Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement <BR>"An enormously talented writer--witty but always sympathetic, generous in showing us the secrets of his heart...By writing about what's seemingly different Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously painfully true for all of us." <BR>--Amy Tan Visit the Tales of the City website at www.talesofthecity.com
 

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Maupin's Tribute to San Francisco in the Seventies

by   kchowell , top reviewer in Books at Epinions.com ,  Jun 26, 2000
Pros: A witty and intelligent book that happens to be groundbreaking.
Cons: More satisfying if one considers it a part of a serial.
Review: Growing up in Northern California in the seventies, I don’t think that I fully appreciated the magnitude of the social changes that were taking place around me. Protestors and picket lines weren’t strange; the longhaired boys and girls that played music...
Author's Rating: 5/5 stars  
 

"Dear . . . I have no objections to anything"

by   jasonkirk ,  Jun 26, 2000
Pros: Great book about life in 1970's San Francisco, gay or otherwise
Cons: Maupin seems a bit of a drama queen :-)
Review: Unlike Mary Ann Singleton, I was 18, not 25, when I first saw San Francisco. I was from Seattle, not Cleveland. I was going to Stanford, not running away from a life without promise or excitement. But in so many ways, I was able to feel in touch with...
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