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Also by Armistead Maupin:

The Days of Anna Madrigal, February 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Tales of the City, June 2007
Paperback
Michael Tolliver Lives, June 2007
Hardcover
Night Listener, August 2006
Paperback
Night Listener, September 2000
Hardcover
More Tales of the City, June 1998
Paperback
Sure of You, February 1994
Paperback
Further Tales of the City, February 1994
Paperback
Babycakes, February 1994
Paperback
Maybe the Moon, August 1993
Paperback
Significant Others, October 1989
Paperback

BABYCAKES
By: Armistead Maupin

Tales of the City Series, Volume 4
Harper Perennial
February 1994
On Sale: January 26, 1994
336 pages
ISBN: 0060924837
EAN: 9780060924836
Paperback
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Fiction

"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."
--New York Times Book Review

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then 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 work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

"Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh."
--Ian McKellen

"Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop."
--Denver Post

"Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on."
-- New York Times Book Review