Babycakes

Name: Babycakes
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Armistead Maupin
ISBN: 9780061977329

Author: Armistead Maupin

Series: Tales of the City #4

Narrator: Armistead Maupin

Abridged: 3 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/06/2009

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Lgbtq+

Synopsis

""Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on."" —New York Times Book ReviewThe fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.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 neighbor, 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.

About Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin is the author of the Tales of the City series, which includes Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, The Days of Anna Madrigal, and Mona of the Manor. His other books include the memoir Logical Family and the novels Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. Maupin was the 2012 recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Pioneer Award. He lives in London with his husband, Christopher Turner.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on November 14, 2017

Now we see where the genius of Will and Grace and Sex and the City is derived from: This incredible series does not disappoint, it's very much incapable of failing us, and I am happy to report that #4 is better still than 3. SO... This one is the best in the series THUS FAR! And speak of historic!:......more

Goodreads review by Charles on July 13, 2014

Babycakes is a far better book than its three predecessors in the Tales of the City series. Between the previous book and Babycakes, Armistead Maupin realised that he couldn't keep writing about gay life in San Francisco as if AIDS hadn't happened. Babycakes begins shortly after the death from AIDS......more

Goodreads review by LenaRibka on October 15, 2018

I have never been a fan of Mary Ann. Actually I don't understand WHY everyone likes her. Doesn't matter. In this sequel she MAY be overdone. WTF?! How someone COULD come to SUCH a STUPID idea for such a SERIOUS problem?! But I can't help myself. The series is sooooo entertaining that I have no other......more