Tales of the City

Name: Tales of the City
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)
Author: Armistead Maupin
ISBN: 9780060883676

Author: Armistead Maupin

Series: Tales of the City #1

Narrator: Armistead Maupin

Abridged: 18 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Audio

Published: 08/08/2006

Category: Fiction - Lgbt

Synopsis

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis.For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of nine novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Dutch on 2011-01-14 16:32:41

Armistead Maupin is so perfect as the reader of his own stories, it's kind of a shame that most of his fans will read it rather than listen to his reading of it. Much of this small novel is a trip down memory lane, reintroducing the now aging characters of Maupin's Tales of the City series. But the last third of the book involves some surprising plot twists that make this story more substantial and much more moving than you would have expected from the first part. I always feel better about the world and our chances for happiness and fulfillment after a dose of Maupin and this audiobook is no exception.