Tales of the City Author:Armisted Maupin First published to scant notice in 1978, Tales of the City has attracted a devoted worldwide following. Through the lovelorn tenants of a San Franciscos apartment house, Maupin takes the reader into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, cutthroat debutantes and Jockey shorts dance contests. Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, this cun... more »ningly observed comedy -- and the five novels which succeed it -- offer and unprecedented portair of the agonies and absurdities of urban life in the last quarter of the 20th Century.« less