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Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin

Description: ISBN 0552998761 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Armistead Maupin / Edition: New edition / Paperback / 272 Pages / Book is published 2007-06-19 ... more

Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin ... by Black Swan

Newest Review: ... story follows the intertwining and everyday lives of a bunch of assorted characters ranging from the rich and the working ... more

... class who all live in San Francisco. Amongst others we meet a small town girl in her twenties from Cleveland, a middle-aged hippy landlady, somehow all of them lonely and without roots which is no surprise as 'no one is from San Francisco'. So why is that they all came here to this iconic and liberal city that is now wallowing in its flower-power ruins and lost illusions? ~ Writing style ~ The book is chopped up into bitesize chapters of a few pages long that with their focus alternating between the characters. This s...more

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Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin: Friscan tales from the 70s (687 words)
by - written on 28/10/08 (Very useful, 113 readings)
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Published: 1976 ~ Introduction ~ I first heard about this American author when my boyfriend bought and read Maupin's then latest book 'The Night Listener'. He had told me Mauprin was the same who wrote the 'Tales of the City' series I'd vagely heard of. Always excited by finding a new 'favourite' writer, I serendipidously came across 'Tales of the City' on the 'Book Swap' shelves at my workplace. ~ About the author ~ Armistead Maupin was born in 1944 into a conservative family embracing those values and becoming a lawyer. He later changed his views and moved to Califormia where he started working as a journalist for papers ... Read the complete review

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