Tales of the City 04 - Babycakes

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
Novels
Tales of the City
More Tales of the City
Further Tales of the City
Babycakes
Significant Others
Sure of You
Maybe the Moon
Collections
28 Barbary Lane
Back to Barbary Lane
    MEMO TO LORD JAMIE NEIDPATH
Easley House may bear a marked resemblance to Stanway House, but Lord Teddy Roughton is nothing like you. You and I know that. Now the others do. Cheers.
A.M.
    Copyright
    This work was published in somewhat different form in the San Francisco Chronicle.
    Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint: Lyrics from Sail Away, by Noël Coward. Copyright © 1950 by Chappell & Co., Ltd. Copyright renewed, Chappell & Co., Inc. publisher in U.S.A. International Copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
    BABYCAKES. Copyright © 1984 by The Chronicle Publishing Company.
    All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    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: 978-0-062-11257-6
    First Perennial Library edition published 1984. Reissued 1989.
First HarperPerennial edition published 1994.
----
    LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 83-18368
    ISBN 9780060924836
----
    05 RRD 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21
    About the Publisher
    Australia
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
25 Ryde Road (PO Box 321)
Pymble, NSW 2073, Australia
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com.au
    Canada
HarperCollins Canada
2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor
Toronto, ON, M4W 1A8, Canada
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.ca
    New Zealand
HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Limited
P.O. Box 1 Auckland,
New Zealand
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.nz
    United Kingdom
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
77-85 Fulham Palace Road
London, W6 8JB, UK
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.uk
    United States
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
10 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com