Babycakes

Armistead Maupin

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An ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there’s more to making a baby that meets the eye in Babycakes. Help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a gay neighbour, and an international ring of mail-order brides.

ISBN: 9781804994283 Category:

Description

The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.

‘A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh…. It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly’ Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement
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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 neighbour, 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.

Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Additional information

Weight 0.209 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.7 × 1.8 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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