Tales Of The City

<p><strong>The first novel in the beloved</strong> <strong><em>Tales of the City</em></strong> <strong>series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga, is an uproariously moving novel and an indelible portrait of cultural change from the seventies.<br /><br />Named as one of the BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Novels,</strong> <strong>a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick and Britain's favourite gay/lesbian novel from <em>The Big Gay Read</em></strong><br /><em><strong>____________________</strong></em><br /><br />Originally serialised in the <em>San Francisco Chronicle </em>in the 1970s<em>,</em> Armistead Maupin's <em>Tales of the City</em> afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.<br /><br />Among the cast of this ground-breaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.<br /><br />Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.</p>