She is thrown into an exciting and sometimes daunting new world of cut-throat debutantes, bathhouses, and Jockey Shorts dance contests.ĭue to the serialisation of the stories in Tales of the City, the chapters in this book are short and easy to read, making the novel very easy to pick up and put down whenever you have some free time to read. Here, Mary Ann meets a whole cast of colourful and interesting characters from her landlady Anna Madrigal to her neighbour Michael Tolliver. The first volume of Maupin’s Tales of the City follows the naïve, young Mary Ann Singleton who moves from Cleveland to San Francisco. The books in the series that followed that, however, were written straight for novel format. The stories featured in the first four novels of Maupin’s Tales of the City books were originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle (the fifth novel was serialised in the San Francisco Examiner) prior to their novelisation. “San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin.” NO MAJOR SPOILERSĪrmistead Maupin’s Tales of the City is the first book in the writer’s acclaimed series which has been adapted several times for stage and screen, including its most recent adaptation for Netflix.
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