Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin

Tales of the City

By Armistead Maupin

  • Release Date: 2011-06-07
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4
4
From 304 Ratings
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Description

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City

“A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.”— Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement

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 ten 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

  • Tales of the City

    1
    By DanCip
    Alex let’s go with “Books that read more like TV scripts with one dimensional characters” please. This book has not stood the test of time, only reads well if you live or lived in San Francisco, and will be enjoyed by those people that like reading Michael Douglas & Karl Malden “Streets of San Francisco” TV type scripts... Boring...!!!

  • tales of the city

    5
    By vonkilo
    A timeless classic

  • Addicting

    5
    By PCHomepage
    I can't imagine reading this as a serial in a newspaper as I would have been beside myself to know what happened next! Truly incredible, well-written adventure into lives that seem to oddly and unexpectedly intermingle. Although I've never lived in San Francisco, my partner was there in the Haight-Ashbury throughout the '70s and while the story takes place in another part of town, it still have a great feeling of what it must have been like for him there. I can't wait to continue to the next book. A small thing, but this is one of the best iBooks I've read with virtually no errors.

  • Please bring back the original cover of the book

    1
    By eriqesque
    Please return this cover so it matches the other books in the series.

  • Boring

    1
    By Annielovely7
    I just couldn't get into this. Too much like a romance novel.

  • Quick, easy, and entertaining read!

    4
    By croberson0530
    Loved this book and can't wait to get started on the next. It definitely pulls you in and you will find yourself saying "Just a few more pages" into the late hours of the night.

  • What the heck???

    1
    By mojo1024810
    How come this is listed under Great Books $3.99 and less, but it is really $9.99 - Bait and Switch!

  • A bit dated, but interesting

    3
    By laurenmhayes11
    The characters and intertwining stories are really interesting, but most of the references from this 1976 story went WAY over my head. It's definitely not a "timeless" story, but in the end I enjoyed it anyway. Now I'd like to read the other books in the series.

  • A fast funny but twisty soap opera

    5
    By Bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz
    Life in San Francisco. Everyone should live there for a time. If you don't get that chance, at least try it vicariously through these stories!

  • Wonderful!

    5
    By LovesHoweird
    I really enjoyed this first novel in the "Tales" series. I've seen the movies, and I can't wait to start the next book of the series. I'm going straight to the next novel. A great read!

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