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Maupin''s San Francisco saga careens beautifully on. —New York Times Book Review

The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

Babycakes

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    A Paperback / softback by Armistead Maupin

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: 29/05/2007
      ISBN13: 9780060924836, 978-0060924836
      ISBN10: 0060924837

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Maupin''s San Francisco saga careens beautifully on. —New York Times Book Review

      The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.

      When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

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