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irony is tempered with
such obviously genuine affection that the result is both
uplifting and urbane.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
    “The abrupt violence in this once-lighthearted novel reads as
much more dangerous—and true—because we’ve been
fooled into going along with what seemed to be a joke.
Maupin is a mask-wearer, like many of his actors. He is also
capable of compassion, of making us care about and care for
the players. They may behave indecently but they are
innocents; the villains live in the larger world
beyond Barbary Lane.”
Los Angles Times
    “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.”
Literary Review

BY ARMISTEAD MAUPIN
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    Copyright
    This work was published in somewhat different form in the San Francisco Chronicle.
    FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY.
Copyright © 1982 by Armistead Maupin.
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    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.
    EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2012 ISBN 9780062112613
    First Perennial Library edition published 1982. Reissued 1989.
First HarperPerennial edition published 1994.
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    LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 81-4805
    ISBN 9780060924928
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