Tales of the City 01 - Tales of the City

bald spot we’ve been trying to cover up, what’s really on our minds.”
Amy Tan “Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hope.”
Denver Post “Armistead Maupin is a first-rate, world-class novelist, creating characters so vivid, complicated, tender, and true as to seem utterly timeless…. I’m willing to bet that fifty years from now Maupin’s work will be read for its detailed descriptions of late-twentieth-century America, its rollicking humor and kind heart, its Chekovian compassion, its Wildean wit, its intricate … sometimes unbelievable but always utterly irresistible plotlines.”
Stephen McCauley “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. Everything is explained and everything tied up and nothing is lost by reading them individually. There is no need even to read them chronologically.”
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    Copyright
    This work was published in somewhat different form in the San Francisco Chronicle.
    Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint lyrics from “It Never Rains in Southern California,” © 1972 Landers Roberts Music (U.S. and Canada) and Rondor Music (International).
    TALES OF THE CITY . Copyright © 1978 by The Chronicle Publishing Company. After word copyright © 1996 by Armistead Maupin.
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    EPub Edition © APRIL 2011 ISBN: 978-0-062-11239-2
    First Perennial Library edition published 1978. Reissued 1989.
    FIRST HARPERPERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED 1991.
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    LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CARD CATALOG NUMBER 77-11781
    ISBN 0-06-096404-9
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