false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166720263m/16265.jpg 16265 9 <BLOCKQUOTE>"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."<br>--<i>New York Times Book Review</i></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then 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, <i>Babycakes</i> was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS. <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>"Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh."<BR>--Ian McKellen <P>"Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop." <BR><I>--Denver Post</I> <P>"Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on."<BR> --<I> New York Times Book Review</I></BLOCKQUOTE> 18021 1990 Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, Vol. 4) total:1415|5:15|4:19|3:12|2:1|1:0| 1415 5514 1673 42 3 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 16:30:32 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 16:35:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu May 07 16:55:39 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 17:01:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 12 18:49:45 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 18:52:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 00:24:25 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 00:39:39 -0700 2008 the thing i like very most about the tales of the city novels is the way in which they are capsules of san francisco history, snapshots based on real places and real people, with a healthy dose of absurdity thrown in. they are lightly-sleazy real-time soap operas of a city i happen to lik...more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 07:02:36 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 17:09:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 11:57:10 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 03:17:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 09:54:48 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 09:54:48 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 17:34:58 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 15:58:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 19 12:28:45 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:00:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 12:53:32 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 16:25:20 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 16 03:39:11 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 22 00:43:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 13:01:09 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 13:01:09 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 16:36:22 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 17:00:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 17:34:18 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 17:37:51 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jan 21 16:05:26 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 16:12:36 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 07:27:01 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 17:37:05 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Fri Jan 16 12:11:52 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 12:11:52 -0800 2009 3 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 13:13:27 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 13:19:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 19:04:05 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 21:19:27 -0700 2008
After a brief intro, the plot is sort of divided into the SF scene and the London scene -- I...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 06 04:48:22 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 06:04:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=16265