Babycakes - Tales of the City

"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.

Product details

• Authors: Armistead Maupin
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.01.1994
• EAN: 9780060924836
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092483-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Tales of the City
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Short Stories, Relating to lesbians, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Satirical fiction and parodies, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Humorous / General, LGBTQ STUDIES: LITERATURE, FICTION: LGBTQ+ / General, FICTION: LGBTQ+ / Transgender, FICTION: Romance / LGBTQ+ / Gay, FICTION: Romance / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian, LGBTQ Studies / Literature