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Babycakes: Tales of the City Sequence, Volume 4 Book

An ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring of mail-order brides. This book presents a comedy of manners.Read More

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  • Foyles

    The fourth novel in the belovedTales of the Cityseries, 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____________________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.

  • Play

    The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier "Tales of the City" books with love and laughter are at it again as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch a grieving gay neighbour and an international ring of mail-order brides. Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of manners for our times.

  • BookDepository

    Babycakes : Paperback : Transworld Publishers Ltd : 9780552998796 : : 29 Jun 2011 : ____________________ Soon to be a Netflix series starring Ellen Page and Laura Linney .

  • 0552998796
  • 9780552998796
  • Armistead Maupin
  • 6 October 2000
  • Black Swan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • New edition
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