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,
“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
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.