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.
| ISBN: | 9780552998789 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2000 |
| Author: | Armistead Maupin |
| Publisher: | Black Swan an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Tales of the City |
| Genres: |
Humorous Fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction Contemporary romance Contemporary lifestyle fiction Narrative theme: Coming of age Narrative theme: Sense of place Narrative theme: Social issues |