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Babycakes - (Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin (Paperback)
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Highlights
- "Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on.
- Author(s): Armistead Maupin
- 336 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, LGBT
- Series Name: Tales of the City
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"Published in somewhat different form in the San Francisco chronicle"--T.p. verso.Book Synopsis
"Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on." --New York Times Book Review
The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than 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 piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
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When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than 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 piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
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