[Tales of the City 04] • Babycakes
![[Tales of the City 04] • Babycakes](/cover/4Ef607Jsq3fm_c0n/big/[Tales%20of%20the%20City%2004]%20%e2%80%a2%20Babycakes.jpg)
- Authors
- Maupin, Armistead
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Tags
- social science , general , gay , gay studies , fiction
- ISBN
- 9780062112576
- Date
- 1984-03-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.36 MB
- Lang
- en
> "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*