Significant Others (Tales of the City Series, Vol. 5)
"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." --New York Times Book Review Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick...
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"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." --New York Times Book Review Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer and the world's most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin's cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia. "Comedy in its most classical form...some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read." --The Guardian "The color is wonderful, the line bold and flowing. It is also wise, witty, loving and caring about the foibles and frailties we all seem to have." --David Hockney
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060924812 (0060924810)
Publish date: February 15th 1994
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Tales of the City (#5)
definitely the best in the series so far. 2.5 stars.
I have now read all of the Tales of the City series. It has taken me 13 years, and I've read them completely out of order. Some day, I will read them all in order, and make much more sense of them. Of course, they stand alone well enough to be engaging. In capturing the essence of the time and p...
This is the 80's with all that implies. AIDS, Reagan, the right getting back power. Our heroes have grown up and in their mid thirties and early forties they are still making some dubious choices like Brian and Mary Ann, experiencing the new order AIDS has imposed on their lives, Michael alone tries...