The third 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.The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park. 

Further tales of the city

Literature & Fiction

ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

Contemporary

Harper&Row

THE NIGHT LISTENER (Three Volume Set).

Harpercollins

Havoc ensues when a women's festival sets up camp downriver from America's most exclusive all-male summer resort

Significant Others

Humor & Satire

More Tales of the City

Racy, suspenseful, and wildly romantic, Further Tales of the City is Maupin's funniest encounter yet with the residents of 28 Barbary Lane, San Francisco, and an irresistible sequel to Tales of the City and More Tales of the City.

Further Tales of the City

What happens when this particular family decides it's time to have a baby?

Babycakes

Harper Row Publishers

Sure of You

The sixth 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.A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is the pitch-perfect sixth novel in Armistead Maupin’s legendary Tales of the City series.

HarperCollins, Publishers

The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures for afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppleganger in a desert whore-house, and Michael Tolliver bumps into a certain gynecologist in a seedy Mexican Bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all'without ever leaving home. A new, full color 16-page insert makes this seamless work complete.
 "Maupin has always been a humane storyteller, and an accessible one. His life-is-good-but-sloppy soap operas are marked by solid craft, superb dialogue, and what used to be called heart." --Entertainment Weekly 
 "Maupin writes with warmth, acuity and tremendous wit about ordinary people learning to live with themselves and one another. Read him." --Harpers &amp; Queen 
 "Sparkling entertainments...lit by a glowing humanity that brings each character to vivid, poignant life." --Publishers Weekly 
 Don't miss the much anticipated continuation of the classic miniseries "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City" premiering June 1998 and airing all summer on SHOWTIME. Check your local listings for times.
Visit the Tales of the City website at www.talesofthecity.com

More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, Volume Two)

United States

Perennial

The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier "Tales of the City" books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbor, and an international ring of mail-order brides. Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of manners for our times.

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

Significant Others (Tales of the City Book 5)

Harper

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Further tales of the city

THE NIGHT LISTENER (Three Volume Set).

Significant Others

More Tales of the City

Further Tales of the City

Babycakes

Sure of You

More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, Volume Two)

Babycakes

Significant Others (Tales of the City Book 5)