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Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

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San Francisco lives at 28 Barbary Lane

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San Francisco lives at 28 Barbary Lane

Set among the residents of the fictional apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Armistead Maupin’s first Tales of the City novel presents a comic portrait of a changing era. Its place as the opening book in a ten-novel series gives the building and its inhabitants room to anchor a broader San Francisco saga. The description frames the book as both a comedy of manners and a portrait of social change, linking intimate life in one apartment community with a period that reshaped how people lived.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in humorous fiction and comedies of manners.
  • Readers who enjoy stories centered on an apartment community and its residents.
  • Readers curious about fiction portraying a changing era in San Francisco.

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Community and shared livingSocial changeSan FranciscoComedy of manners

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Book overview

The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City

"A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly."-- Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement

For almost four decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own 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 ten novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

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