Tales of the City
ISBN:
9781559942034 (1559942037)
Publish date: August 5th 1998
Publisher: HarperAudio
Edition language: English
Series: Tales of the City (#1)
So there were really Rolling Skating Nuns in the Castro. I asked my friend who lived there. I miss all the cool stuff. This is a book that draws you right in and carries you with it. It, apparently from what my friend says, captures a time and place. It addresses question of sexuality, morali...
A really fast-paced read that started as a newspaper serial that details the lives of the occupants of 28 Barbary Lane in 1970s San Francisco. I kept comparing it to the 44 Scotland Street series, though this is darker. There were a lot of references I did not get--I looked some of them up, but most...
3,5 stars rounded up to 4 stars. I think about...some things...1) Could I have liked it more if I had read it shortly after the release date. The answer is SURE. OF COURSE. NO DOUBTS. 2) Could I have liked it more if I hadn't' read Boystown series ? Probably yes. BEFORE reading [b:Tales of the City...
I've never watched 'Sex In The City' or 'Ugly Betty', but I know enough about them to equate this book and the entire series to that vein. It's raunchy, gauche, loose, gay, crass even -- in every sense of the word, soap opera-ish! Oh, not to forget scandalous! But it's set in San Francisco in the 19...
bookshelves: north-americas, play-dramatisation, radio-4, winter-20122013, published-1978, glbt, abandoned, next Read on January 31, 2013 BBC Blurb: It's 1976 - San Francisco . Mary Ann Singleton arrives from Cleveland for a vacation . She'shoping for adventure. Decising to stay she needs to find...
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