Significant Others

Beschreibung

The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.<BR><BR>'Some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read' Guardian<BR>____________________<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco.

The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

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