Tales of the City (Harper Perennial Olive Edition) - Softcover

Maupin, Armistead

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062421085 ISBN 13: 9780062421081

Publisher: Perennial, 2015

Synopsis

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 nine 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 forever changed the way we live."

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Review:

"A consummate entertainer... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly" (Edmund White The Times Literary Supplement)

"Maupin is a richly gifted comic author" (Observer)

"San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin" (Independent)

"Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials... it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling" (Literary Review)

Book Description:

The first volume in the widely acclaimed and much-loved series

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062421085
• ISBN 13: 9780062421081
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 406