Significant Others, Armistead Maupin
Significant Others, Armistead Maupin
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Significant Others

Author: Armistead Maupin

Narrator: Cynthia Nixon

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/26/2013

Synopsis

Narrated by Cynthia NixonInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityThe fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.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.

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.

About Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon has been working professionally in film, television, and onstage since the age of twelve. Her best known role is Miranda on Sex and the City for which she received an Emmy® nomination and three consecutive Golden Globe nominations. She lives in New York with her two children: Samantha and Charlie.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on October 10, 2018

It's this fifth one that (finally) falters... I read the first four Tales of the City books last year, and just to inject this year with that same sense of plot/character preposterousness, I get to this one, the one that actually has two characters seriously contend with the AIDS epidemic. As the ser......more

Goodreads review by Richard on June 29, 2018

When in search of a lighter read, Armistead Maupin never fails, or at least he hasn't up to now. Not that there aren't serious events taking place in the fifth Tales of the City book. We are now in the era of Aids and it is having repercussions for gay and straight characters. But what I come back to......more

Goodreads review by Melody on December 16, 2013

I thought I'd review these in preparation for the Anna Madrigal book coming out in January 2014. I honestly didn't expect to be catapulted head over heels back to Barbary Lane, back to the late 80s. Some of my intense reaction to this story/timeline must be attributed to my recent reading of the unu......more

Goodreads review by Dennis on September 16, 2021

The Barbary Lane 90210 gang get out of San Francisco and go to camp. A wonderfully witty, warm-hearted and wise distraction from the stylized and serialized Ryan Murphy tv dramas that have also been vying for my attention.......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on November 17, 2023

Armistead Maupin is the master of writing modern accepting communities, in all their glorious difference. I found his first four books bound together with string at a church school fete. Armistead graciously signed my aged paperbacks when he attended Brisbane Writers Festival, I told him Brisbane's......more

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